beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agoProton 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.protonvpn.comexternal-linkmessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up1253file-text
arrow-up1253external-linkProton 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.protonvpn.combeep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square44fedilinkfile-text
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minus-square𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-27 hours agoProtonVPN Mulvad VPN CalyxVPN RiseUpVPN PIA VPN Proton has 1 tracker, while the others have 0. PIA has GPS location permissions, though. Edit. All links go to the Exodus Project page for those products. The same site that the David P post uses Edit 2. Some (including Proton) have camera permission, and I don’t understand why a VPN app would need access to my camera.
ProtonVPN
Mulvad VPN
CalyxVPN
RiseUpVPN
PIA VPN
Proton has 1 tracker, while the others have 0.
PIA has GPS location permissions, though.
Edit. All links go to the Exodus Project page for those products. The same site that the David P post uses
Edit 2. Some (including Proton) have camera permission, and I don’t understand why a VPN app would need access to my camera.