Ray Walsh is a digital privacy expert with over 9 years of experience writing about consumer privacy services including VPNs, password managers, secure email services, and encrypted cloud backups.
Ray graduated from the English department of Exeter University in the UK and has since been quoted over 500 times to express his privacy advocacy opinions in leading publications such as The Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, CNet, and The Register to name a few. Ray has also been interviewed on the TV and the radio, including on The BBC and Russia Today to answer questions regarding privacy laws and surveillance tech.
Ray has written tech guides, reviews, blogs, news, and opinion pieces for BestVPN, ProPrivacy, Dell Tech Page One, StartPage, and Politics.co.uk – and he is now a happy member of the Comparitech family where he continues his crusade to increase privacy and internet freedom for people around the world.
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