A VPN is not a magic talisman. It is just an organization of humans operating technology. Don’t trust humans operating technology. VPNs are good for keeping your ISP from sniffing your traffic and then pushing ads at you but don’t trust them with your life, liberty, or property.
VPN’s will hide you from the Data Brokers but not the Government.
If they can catch General Patreas’s girlfriend they can catch anyone. He was head of the CIA and she knew all the safety protocols.
They knew she was using a public wi-fi and then got the local security camera to identify her car.
Their is a hidden story there. Why did they want him out so bad that they would go to all that effort?
Maybe I’ll ask Q!