beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days ago

Proton analyzed 7,000+ mobile VPN apps. 64 apps actively collect physical location via GPS or other geolocation, 3 are owned by market research firms, and 85% of them contain trackers.

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Proton analyzed 7,000+ mobile VPN apps. 64 apps actively collect physical location via GPS or other geolocation, 3 are owned by market research firms, and 85% of them contain trackers.

beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days ago

Shady VPNs could be spying on millions of Americans | Proton VPN

A new survey of VPN apps available in the US shows that a worryingly large number of them behave in unacceptable ways.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1366113/proton-analyzed-7000-mobile-vpn-apps-64-apps-actively-collect-physical-location-via-gps

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This is the trackers and permission site referenced in the X posts

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/
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  Thanks. Also bullshit
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    It is? I use this one frequently. Why is it bullshit?
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      It marks v2rayNG as unsafe because of camera permissions

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