Tin Foil Hats or Real Concern?

They must be trying to push everyone that wants some privacy off the internet entirely and everyone that doesn't mind being spied on to become the norm. I can clearly see anyone wanting any privacy in the not so distant future as a sign you must be guilty of something and be investigated.

That said, I wonder if installing a VPN on your phone stops this in its tracks or if these 'injected special tags' override a VPN connection, anyone?


Last week, privacy advocates turned up some unsettling news: for two years, Verizon's Precision Insights division has been seeding web requests with unique identifiers.
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How does it only come to light after two years after its implementation?
 
It depends on how they are implementing it. It says a tag with your info is injected into the data sent from your phone. VPN doesn't change what data is being sent from your phone, it only encrypts the connection (from your phone to vpn server) and routes it through another machine (so the website would see a different IP address than your phones). Now if they are doing the data injection on their servers and not on your phone, then VPN would protect you since your data is already encrypted and they would have no idea what your are doing.
 
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