Free VPN Apps: Chinese Ownership, Secretive Companies & Weak Privacy

guest · Nov 14, 2018

Free VPN Apps: Chinese Ownership, Secretive Companies & Weak Privacy
November 14, 2018
https://www.top10vpn.com/free-vpn-app-investigation/

We investigated the top free VPN (Virtual Private Network) apps in Apple's App Store and Google Play [...]
Our investigation uncovered that over half of the top free VPN apps either had Chinese ownership or were actually based in China, which has aggressively clamped down on VPN services over the past year

We decided to shine a light on these companies to help consumers avoid inadvertently compromising their privacy by using untrustworthy products.
Key Findings
86% of apps had unacceptable privacy policies / 55% of privacy policies were hosted in an amateur fashion
83% of app customer support email requests for assistance were ignored [...]
Vast majority of companies make it very difficult to find out where they are based and who is involved
Summary Table [...]
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