Is this week’s test pilot launch of Mozilla Private Network the moment browser VPNs finally become a must-have privacy feature?
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Facebook got 187,000 users’ data with snoopy VPN app
According to a letter it sent to Sen. Richard Blumenthal, that’s 31,000 US users, with the rest in India.
Foreign spies may be hiding in your VPN, warns DHS
“…nation-state actors have demonstrated intent and capability to leverage VPN services and vulnerable users for malicious purposes.”
Deep Packet Inspection a threat to net neutrality, say campaigners
Europe’s biggest ISPs and mobile operators are accused of undermining net neutrality rules and user privacy with their use of DPI.
Security weakness in popular VPN clients
Numerous enterprise VPN clients could be vulnerable to a potentially serious security weakness that could be used to spoof access.
Opera brings back free VPN service to its Android browser
Opera lost its Android browser’s VPN after it was sold to a Chinese consortium, but now it’s back.
Google says sorry for pulling a Facebook with monitoring program
It was using the same Apple enterprise back door as Facebook to get its market research done, but it owned up and backed off.
Apple kicks Facebook’s snoopy Research app out of the App Store
It was paying people, including teens, up to $20 to install an app that got root access for “nearly limitless access,” encryption or no.
Cyber tormentor leaves a trail that lands him 17.5 years
Ryan S. Lin pleaded guilty to cyberstalking, distribution of child abuse imagery, hoax bomb threats, computer fraud and abuse, and ID theft.
Facebook pulls its privacy-violating Onavo VPN from Apple’s App Store
Apple last week suggested that Facebook remove its Onavo security app from the App store due to privacy rule violations. On Wednesday, Facebook complied.