VPN's are you secure?

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  • system
    PCHF Owner
    • Jan 2015
    • 7634

    #1

    VPN's are you secure?

    We went through 100+ VPN service providers and their logging policies. This case study is the outcome. Does YOUR VPN keep logs? Find out here...
  • plodr
    PCHF Member
    • Aug 2016
    • 1021

    #2
    Thanks for the link to the article. I don’t use a VPN. I was considering installing one just to be safe at open wifi free hotspots. I wouldn’t count on it to anonymous because sadly, data collection seems to be the order of the day.

    I love how all my banks send these β€œprivacy” policy papers. Why waste the paper. They collect my info, share it with others and even if I no longer use that bank, they still keep my info.

    Between the Equifax leak and now the Exactis leak ( Exactis Data Leak May Have Exposed 230 Million Americans' Data | Fortune ) all my info is out there for anyone to see.

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    • _Code_Anime
      PCHF Member
      • Aug 2018
      • 6

      #3
      Never trust privacy policies.

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      • system
        PCHF Owner
        • Jan 2015
        • 7634

        #4
        Originally posted by ~Code&Anime~
        Never trust privacy policies.
        Pretty unfair generalization.

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        • _Code_Anime
          PCHF Member
          • Aug 2018
          • 6

          #5
          VPN’s for sure. They better keep logs. Big companies like google though. You see how they track your location data.

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          • system
            PCHF Owner
            • Jan 2015
            • 7634

            #6
            Privacy policies can be trusted if you read through them properly. For example, CyberGhost states that they do not keep logs, however, later in the privacy policy they mention that they have third-party apps that keep logs for them. They also mention that they keep β€œrecords” of certain non-personal information as well. You just have to read carefully if you care about your privacy.

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            • _Code_Anime
              PCHF Member
              • Aug 2018
              • 6

              #7
              That’s contradictory though. It should be made clearer. I feel that companies are deliberately ambiguous about these things. In general. Like google. They track your location when location services are turned off. They specify this in privacy policy in different words but they don’t state it can be turned off within settings in google account.

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              • system
                PCHF Owner
                • Jan 2015
                • 7634

                #8
                You’re right, it is ambiguous, but it isn’t contradictory. You just have to read carefully, they weren’t meant to be an easy read for casual users.

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                • _Code_Anime
                  PCHF Member
                  • Aug 2018
                  • 6

                  #9
                  And that is the problem

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                  • Scess1990
                    PCHF Member
                    • Jul 2019
                    • 2

                    #10
                    Tracking location and data is probably the main reason for users to include VPN.

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                    • Scess1990
                      PCHF Member
                      • Jul 2019
                      • 2

                      #11
                      There are many different developments in this area. sometimes it is not necessary to use VPN.

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                      • system
                        PCHF Owner
                        • Jan 2015
                        • 7634

                        #12
                        Never Ever believe you are secure and or private behind a VPN

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