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The Best VPN services for 2019 [1]
A virtual private network enables users to send and receive data while remaining anonymous and secure online. In this directory, we look at a few of the very best commercial VPN service providers on the Internet.
When I started learning about NordVPN [3]for this review, one of the first things I noticed was that, although its branding seems Nordic, the company's headquarters is actually in Panama.
When I spoke to Marty P Kamden[4], the company's CMO, he told me the name "was inspired by Nordic ideals of confidence, trust, and innovation. It reflects how we value our customers' freedom of choice, how we strive to be innovative with our technology, and the way we work."
There are definitely jurisdictional privacy benefits to using Panama as the country of record for a VPN provider. In particular, the nation doesn't have mandatory data retention laws and doesn't participate in either the Quadripartite Pact[5] (better known as Five Eyes or UKUSA) or SIGINT Seniors Europe (or SSEUR, better known as Fourteen Eyes).
These are signals intelligence sharing agreements between certain nations that allow for data sharing. For VPN users concerned about government access to communication, the fact that a VPN