Lauren Hendry Parsons
Director, Communications & Advocacy
Digital rights expert
Lauren Hendry Parsons is Director, Communications & Advocacy at ExpressVPN, and co-chair of the VPN Trust Initiative. A digital rights expert, she helps people understand the importance of digital privacy and security, and she believes that defending online rights and freedoms has never been more critical.
Lauren is also passionate about helping others around her find purpose in what they do and is an active public speaker, mentor, and accredited mediator.
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Insights on digital rights and activism
- Helping activists stay secure online
- Government hacking: How countries surveil their own citizens
- What Australia’s social media ban for kids under 16 means for online safety
Industry news and insights
- How to protect your creative work from AI training
- Survey: How worried are you about cybercrime while traveling?
- 40% U.S. travelers feel social pressure to share their locations
- UK survey exposes Brits’ biggest holiday gripes
- Why the Internet of Behaviors could be the next big threat to your privacy
- U.S. moves to ban TikTok. Are other apps at risk?
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“Free access to social media and the broader internet is crucial for citizens to connect, organize, and overcome oppression—and we exist to be part of the solution.”
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