One of the biggest stories in 2008 will be the fact that people start to finally get PO’d about the hidden lack of net neutrality that actually exists. In the past few years governments have been able to use national security threats to tighten their grasp on internet traffic monitoring.
Now many companies are doing the same thing to their own customers and employees. The rise in the number of services that hide ip for you is not shocking.
More and more people are using these proxy service to help hide ip address for various reasons. One of the biggest users of these services are students at schools who have had their IP addresses blocked from various social network sites. While that might not really be privacy related it does ask the question of why some organizations have the ability to block out sites that actually provide some legal purpose.