Best VPNs for Android: security and privacy online
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Most free Android VPNs leak data and many don't even use encryption, says study
The Verge The study focused on free VPN apps available on Android, but Vallina-Rodriguez says paying for a service isn't necessarily a guarantee of security. With paid VPNs there isn't an incentive to monetize users by selling on their data or inserting adverts … |
Over the past half-decade, a growing number of ordinary people have come to regard virtual private networking software as an essential protection against all-too-easy attacks that intercept sensitive data or inject malicious code into incoming traffic. Now, a comprehensive study of almost 300 VPN apps downloaded by millions of Android users from Google’s official Play Market finds that the vast majority of them can’t be fully trusted. Some of them don’t work at all.
According to a research paper that analyzed the source-code and network behavior of 283 VPN apps for Android:
The researchers—from Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, the University of South Wales, and the University of California at Berkeley—wrote in their report:
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