{"id":5920,"date":"2017-04-12T16:59:54","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T06:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=5920"},"modified":"2017-04-12T16:59:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T06:59:54","slug":"tomorrow-is-national-get-a-vpn-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/tomorrow-is-national-get-a-vpn-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow is national ‘Get a VPN Day’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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April 13. Mark it down in your calendars — it’s “National Get a VPN Day.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Privacy advocate group Digital Rights Watch is calling on all Australians to hide the trail they leave behind online, as Australia’s mandatory data retention scheme comes into effect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As of tomorrow your ISP is required, by law, to begin collecting every bit of metadata about you and your internet activities for the government to call upon as they may.<\/p>\n

If you’re looking for a good resource for researching what VPN service may suit your needs best I highly recommend you check out TorrentFreak’s VPN roundup here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Source: Happy ‘National Get a VPN Day’ — data retention is official – CNET<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 13. Mark it down in your calendars — it’s “National Get a VPN Day.” Privacy advocate group…\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}