More than 480 million mobile VPN apps were downloaded from the official Android and iOS app stores in the last 12 months, a report published last week reveals. The number is 54% higher than the previous year, which only saw 311 million downloads. Of the […]
View moreMany VPN apps on Apple’s App store can’t be trusted, researcher warns
Apple must look into the security and privacy of VPN apps provided by its App Stores. “I’m told Apple is at last looking into the privacy and security of free VPN apps made available across its platforms”, following a report from researcher, Simon Migliano. Read […]
View moreFacebook pays teens to install VPN that spies on them
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that […]
View moreFacebook is pulling its VPN Onavo from the App Store
Facebook is finally, ever-so-slightly curtailing one aspect of its creepy data gathering practices, and all it took was a threat from Apple. The social media and advertising conglomerate plans to remove its Onavo VPN app from the App Store after Apple warned the company that […]
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