Sebastian Schaub

Sebastian is the founder of hide.me VPN and he has been working in the internet security industry for over a decade. He started hide.me VPN, 8 years ago to make internet security and privacy accessible to everybody.

According to recent news from India, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs is reportedly asking the Indian government to effectively greenlight a ban on VPN services across the country. The reason for imposing such a ban? VPN apps and tools are readily available online which gives criminals anonymity online ... Read More

The VPN industry touts all sorts of privacy protocols and encryption methods that purport to protect users. While this is, undoubtedly, important information, and is a decent way to compare and contrast different VPN services, it isn’t the full story when it comes to your privacy. An often-overlooked issue is ... Read More

Toward the end of 2020, law enforcement agencies from a multi-country task force seized the web domains and server infrastructure of three virtual private network (VPN) services that provided a safe haven for cybercriminals. The services in question had been active for more than a decade, and were extensively advertised ... Read More

As active participants within the VPN industry, we are pleased to join initiatives such as the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition) and the VPN Trust Initiative (VTI), a consortium of VPN providers tasked with improving digital safety for consumers. Initiatives such as these allow the industry as a whole to take ... Read More