In a new filing brought to light by ZDNet, the privacy advocacy group Center for Democracy & Technology has stated that Hotspot Shield isn’t as anonymous as it lead users to believe. The group worked with Carnegie Mellon to discover that the application and service utilized various data sharing practices with different advertising networks.
The filing exemplifies the user privacy difficulties with VPN services and apps. Even when downloaded from Apple’s own App Store, VPN providers can present as much a benefit as a risk.
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