I think it would be more important not to discuss the performance and efficacity of VPN services, but to discuss what it is people imagine a VPN can do in relation to the Data Retention Act.
...because as a person who has both read the Act and understands VPNs, I can't for the life of me see why you think they are relevant...
VPNs do not encrypt the Communcations made using a Service that comes under the Act.
VPNs encrypt communications that pass over the top of Service that is subject to the Act.
And s187A,4, spells out in black and white that such communications aqnd services are not subject to Data Retention.
So you are subjecting yourself to poor performance and data insecurity issues (you don't trust your local telco, but you trust an anonymous foreign VPN provider...? srsly?) for no purpose whatsoever.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
