beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 months 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-square49linkfedilinkarrow-up1261arrow-down124file-text
arrow-up1237arrow-down1external-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 months agomessage-square49linkfedilinkfile-text
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minus-squareCosmoNova@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 months agoThey would probably get sued if they dropped names of direct competitors.
minus-squareTh4tGuyII@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoYeah true enough. Even if the data they’ve got was 100% accurate and easy to prove in court, they’d still be stuck having to pay out the arse for lawyers just to appear in court.
They would probably get sued if they dropped names of direct competitors.
Yeah true enough. Even if the data they’ve got was 100% accurate and easy to prove in court, they’d still be stuck having to pay out the arse for lawyers just to appear in court.