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Do you trust Xi with your 'private' browsing data? Apple and Google app stores still offer China-based VPNs. (www.techtransparencyproject.org)

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The Apple and Google app stores continue to offer private browsing apps that are surreptitiously owned by Chinese companies, more than six weeks after they were identified in a Tech Transparency Project report. Apple and Google may also be profiting from these apps, which put Americans’ privacy and U.S. national security at risk, TTP found.

The apps are virtual private networks (VPNs), which promise to mask a user’s identity as they browse the internet. But Chinese-owned VPNs raise serious privacy and security concerns for Americans because Chinese companies can be forced to share user data with the Chinese government under the country’s national security laws. VPNs have access to particularly sensitive user data since they see all of a person’s web activity.

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[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 14 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Don't use sketchy VPN apps, at all. The fact that they're Chinese owned is irrelevant.

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 4 points 17 hours ago

Honestly, I wouldn't trust most commercial VPNs these days, especially the ones that are nearly always on 100% discount sales. If they're not making their revenue from customers, they must be making it some other way. And that's a mighty fine data set they're sitting on.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

So, trust your VPN service. Makes sense.

[–] febra@lemmy.world 12 points 18 hours ago

As someone living in Europe I'm more concerned with American companies harvesting my data.

[–] mke@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago

About as much as I trust the yanks.

[–] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

it can’t be worse that what DOGE has done.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 2 points 20 hours ago

you can move onto proxies, or even host your own, but thats going to cost money.(yea thats what the of ACCOUNTS, AND LINK FARMING accts use on reddit these days). VPn is way to compromised and abused already.

[–] superniceperson@sh.itjust.works 1 points 22 hours ago

Sincerely, what is China going to do with it? Open a Chinese bank account in my name? If any institution in the us accepts account openings from a chinese or vpn ip address then it cant be trustworthy enough to ever affect me.