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Study finds half of most popular VPN apps linked to China
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018 07:43:53 +0000 (UTC)
https://www.ft.com/content/e5567d8a-ee65-11e8-89c8-d36339d835c0 By Madhumita Murgia European Technology Correspondent FT.com NOVEMBER 22, 2018More than half of the world's 30 most popular smartphone apps for browsing the internet privately are owned by Chinese companies, according to a new study that raises significant privacy concerns.
Seventeen of the apps, which offer to connect users to the internet through a secure tunnel known as a "virtual private network" (VPN), were owned either by Chinese companies or companies appearing to have links to China.
Collectively, the apps, which include TurboVPN, VPN Proxy Master, VPN 360 and Snap VPN, have been downloaded more than 100m times on Android devices and iPhones.
But the companies operating them often had very limited privacy policies, said Simon Migliano, the head of research at Top10VPN.com, which reviews VPN services.
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