VPN Provider Accused of Sharing Customer Traffic With Online Advertisers
Found on Bleeping Computer on Tuesday, 08 August 2017
In a 14-page complaint, the CDT accuses AnchorFree — the company behind the Hotspot Shield VPN — of breaking promises it made to its users by sharing their private web traffic with online advertisers for the purpose of improving the ads shown to its users.
"Hotspot Shield’s marketing claims that it does not track, log, or sell customers’ information, but its privacy policy and a source code analysis reveal otherwise," the CDT wrote in a press release yesterday.
Not much of a surprise actually, and sadly many won't really care much because they already give up their privacy already everywhere.