Tag: VPN Privacy & Security
Windscribe’s bizarre AI Hitler marketing stunt sparks fury and VPN subscription cancellations
Windscribe’s AI-generated ad featuring Adolf Hitler has sparked massive backlash online Some users have threatened to cancel their VPN subscriptions over the marketing stunt The controversy has also shone a spotlight on the company’s use of AI for support, code, and testing A highly controversial marketing stunt has landed Windscribe…
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France blocks under-15 social media ban over freedom of expression fears
France’s highest court has struck down a bill banning social media for teens Judges ruled the ban disproportionately infringed on freedom of expression This decision also pauses evaluation of VPN usage in France France’s highest constitutional authority, the Constitutional Council, has blocked a controversial bill that would have banned social…
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This Russian VPN has been accused of breaching its no-log policy — here’s what we know
Split VPN has been accused of breaching its no-log policies It allegedly leaked 58M connection logs, which SplitVPN denies as its own Users trusting a no-log policy is not enough Russian SplitVPN (formerly NotVPN) has been accused of breaching its own no-log policy after a data leak exposed a MySQL…
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First your age, next your identity: Inside the ‘hack’ that broke the EU age verification app’s privacy promises
When Paul Moore heard the European Commission President saying that the EU age verification app will “give children a safer start online,” he was unconvinced. “Bypassing the latest EU age verification app (2026.07-1) with a Chrome extension,” he later posted on X. And it wasn’t the first time. With over…
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Thousands of iOS and Android VPNs are hiding behind fake websites and useless privacy policies — here’s how to spot them
If you think downloading a VPN directly from an official app store guarantees your digital privacy, it’s time to think again. We recently undertook a huge audit of storefront verification standards, which has exposed a severe lack of quality control across both the iOS App Store and Google Play. We…
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Iran-linked group caught hiding surveillance tools in fake apps
Recorded Future found an Iran-linked group spreading spyware The malware is delivered through fake VPN and media player apps Researchers assess that most targets are Iranian users A new report from Recorded Future’s Insikt Group describes a campaign that inverts the whole point of a privacy tool: fake VPN apps…
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