be able to see your true IP address (and thus,

can’t see your true location) and will have a hard

time correlating your movements across the web.

When you use the corporate VPN provided by

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server. People on the same network as you and

your ISP are still blind. People watching from the

outside still won’t see your true IP address, and

will still have a harder time tracking you.

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connecting you to your employer’s network.

When you’re connected to your employer’s VPN,

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connected to your employer’s Wi-Fi or ethernet.

You might be at home in your pajamas, but in the

eyes of your boss and corporate IT, you’re on the

corporate network.

IT’S YOUR BOSS’ WORLD

I’m not a lawyer, but I’ve been told by smarter

people than I am that you do not have an

expectation of privacy when using your

employer’s network. It makes sense to me that

this would include the corporate VPN. While

technically similar, a personal and corporate VPN

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A commercial VPN should take pains to keep you

anonymous. The best services go to great lengths

to ensure no one, not even the VPN company,

knows what you’re doing when you’re connected

to the service.

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