The best VPNs can make your online life more private with software that's convenient and cheap — sometimes even free. While keeping your IP address invisible, you can use your VPN to explore streaming ...

Most of what you do online is quietly logged, analyzed, and resold, even when it feels routine, like checking email or streaming a show. A virtual private network, or VPN, is one of the few tools that ...

Mike De Socio is a CNET contributor who writes about energy, personal finance, electric vehicles and climate change. He's also the author of the nonfiction book, "Morally Straight: How the Fight for ...