Verizon Didn’t Bother to Write a Privacy Policy for its ‘Privacy Protecting’ VPN

guest · Aug 6, 2018

Verizon Didn’t Bother to Write a Privacy Policy for its ‘Privacy Protecting’ VPN
August 06, 2018
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...-policy-for-safe-wi-fi-privacy-protecting-vpn

Verizon is rolling out a new Virtual Private Network service called Safe Wi-Fi it developed in conjunction with McAfee. According to Verizon, the $4 per month service “protects your privacy and blocks ad tracking, creating a secure Wi-Fi connection anywhere in the world.”

The company’s terms of service directs all of its VPN users to the general McAfee privacy policy governing all of McAfee’s products. That policy, in turn, states that McAfee and Verizon have the right to collect an ocean of data on the end user [...]

When pressed as to why consumers would pay for a “security and privacy” tool that seems to encroach on consumer privacy, the company told Motherboard that the current privacy policy doesn’t accurately reflect what’s being collected.

And if the current privacy policy is little more than an incorrect placeholder, how exactly is an end user supposed to know what data actually is being collected? [...]
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