Your Smartphone VPN may be a bigger privacy risk than not using a VPN at all

[Razer]

> We recently published a report with the University of New South Wales
> and the University of Berkeley has revealed that these apps are not as
> secure as they make out to be.
>
> The first analysis of its kind, the report looked at 283 Android VPN
> apps, investigating a wide range of security and privacy features.VPN
> facts from the study
>
> Alarmingly, the report uncovered that not only did 18 per cent of the
> apps fail to encrypt users’ traffic but 38 per cent injected malware
> or malvertising – software designed to damage or gain access to the
> users’ information. The very reason users install these apps – to
> protect their data – is the very function they are not performing and
> these apps have been installed by tens of millions of users.
>
> And what’s more, the report found that over 80 per cent of apps
> requested to access sensitive data such as user accounts and text
> messages.
>
> While most of the examined apps offer (some form of) online anonymity,
> some app developers deliberately sought to collect personal user
> information that could then be sold on to external partners.

https://blog.csiro.au/tinker-torrentor-streamer-spy-vpn-privacy-alert/


Also see: Flurry, The Company That Tracks More Phones Than Google Or
Facebook” and you’ve probably never even heard of them.
http://auntieimperial.tumblr.com/post/65616918121

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