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"Privacy" is somewhat of an Internet buzzword nowadays as the organization model of the Internet has now altered towards data collection.
Even though Virtual Private Network (VPN) is one of the better solutions to protect your privacy and data on the Net, you should be more vigilant while choosing a VPN service which actually respects your privacy.
If you utilize popular free virtual private networking service Hotspot Safeguard, your data could be at a significant risk.
A privacy advocacy group has filed an issue with the Federal Investment Commission (FTC) against electronic private networking provider Killer spot Shield for reportedly breaking its own online privateness policy of "complete anonymity" promised to its users.
The 14-page-long complaint submitted Monday morning by the Centre for Democracy and Technology (CDT), an ALL OF US non-profit advocacy group for digital rights, accused Killer spot Shield of allegedly checking, intercepting and collecting their customers' data.
Developed by Anchorfree GmbH, Hotspot Face shield is a VPN service available for free on the search engines Take up Store and Mac Software Store with an believed 500 million users around the world.
VPN is a set of systems conjugated together to build secure connections over the Internet and encrypts your data, thereby securing your identity on the Net and increasing your web security and privacy.
The VPN services are mainly employed by privacy advocates, correspondents, digital activists and protesters to bypass censorship and geo-blocking of content.
Killer spot Shield does just Contrary of What All it Pledges
The Hotspot Cover VPN iphone app promises to "secure all online activities, " hide users' IP addresses and their details, protect them from traffic monitoring, and keep no links logs while protecting their user's internet traffic using an encrypted channel.
On the other hand, according to analyze conducted by the CDT along with Carnegie Mellon College or university, the Hotspot Shield software fails to live up to all promises and instead logs connections, screens users' browsing habits, and redirects online traffic and sells customer data to advertisers.
"It is thusly unfair for Hotspot Protect to present itself as a 48 mechanism for protecting the privacy and security of consumer information while profiting off of that information by collecting and sharing access to it with undisclosed third parties, " the CDT complaint reads.
"Consumers who employ Hotspot Shield VPN do so to protect their privacy, and Killer spot Shield's use of extreme logging practices and thirdparty partnerships harm its customers' declared privacy interests. inches
Hotspot Shield also found injecting Javascript code using iframes to promote and tracking purposes.
Reverse executive of the programs source code also says the VPN uses more than five different third-party monitoring libraries.
Researchers also available that the VPN iphone app discloses sensitive data, including names of wireless systems (via SSID/BSSID info), along with unique identifiers such as Media Access Control addresses, and device IMEI numbers.
The CDT also claims that the VPN service sometimes "redirects ecommerce traffic to partnering domain names. inches
If users try to visit any commercial website, the VPN software redirects those visitors to partner sites, including advertisement companies, to generate income.
"For example, when an user connects through the VPN to access specific commercial web domains, including major online stores like and, the application can intercept and redirect HTTP demands to partner websites that include online advertising companies, " the complaint says.
The CDT wants the FTC to get started on an exploration into the actual Hotspot Shield's "unfair and deceptive transact practices" also to order the company to stop mispresenting privacy and security claims while marketing its software.
This is exactly why I keep suggesting to not to trust anyone. Especially those companies. You know the most successful criminal in the background of the mankind? Businesses. Yep. So beware when you trust one.
Even though Virtual Private Network (VPN) is one of the better solutions to protect your privacy and data on the Net, you should be more vigilant while choosing a VPN service which actually respects your privacy.
If you utilize popular free virtual private networking service Hotspot Safeguard, your data could be at a significant risk.
A privacy advocacy group has filed an issue with the Federal Investment Commission (FTC) against electronic private networking provider Killer spot Shield for reportedly breaking its own online privateness policy of "complete anonymity" promised to its users.
The 14-page-long complaint submitted Monday morning by the Centre for Democracy and Technology (CDT), an ALL OF US non-profit advocacy group for digital rights, accused Killer spot Shield of allegedly checking, intercepting and collecting their customers' data.
Developed by Anchorfree GmbH, Hotspot Face shield is a VPN service available for free on the search engines Take up Store and Mac Software Store with an believed 500 million users around the world.
VPN is a set of systems conjugated together to build secure connections over the Internet and encrypts your data, thereby securing your identity on the Net and increasing your web security and privacy.
The VPN services are mainly employed by privacy advocates, correspondents, digital activists and protesters to bypass censorship and geo-blocking of content.
Killer spot Shield does just Contrary of What All it Pledges
The Hotspot Cover VPN iphone app promises to "secure all online activities, " hide users' IP addresses and their details, protect them from traffic monitoring, and keep no links logs while protecting their user's internet traffic using an encrypted channel.
On the other hand, according to analyze conducted by the CDT along with Carnegie Mellon College or university, the Hotspot Shield software fails to live up to all promises and instead logs connections, screens users' browsing habits, and redirects online traffic and sells customer data to advertisers.
"It is thusly unfair for Hotspot Protect to present itself as a 48 mechanism for protecting the privacy and security of consumer information while profiting off of that information by collecting and sharing access to it with undisclosed third parties, " the CDT complaint reads.
"Consumers who employ Hotspot Shield VPN do so to protect their privacy, and Killer spot Shield's use of extreme logging practices and thirdparty partnerships harm its customers' declared privacy interests. inches
Hotspot Shield also found injecting Javascript code using iframes to promote and tracking purposes.
Reverse executive of the programs source code also says the VPN uses more than five different third-party monitoring libraries.
Researchers also available that the VPN iphone app discloses sensitive data, including names of wireless systems (via SSID/BSSID info), along with unique identifiers such as Media Access Control addresses, and device IMEI numbers.
The CDT also claims that the VPN service sometimes "redirects ecommerce traffic to partnering domain names. inches
If users try to visit any commercial website, the VPN software redirects those visitors to partner sites, including advertisement companies, to generate income.
"For example, when an user connects through the VPN to access specific commercial web domains, including major online stores like and, the application can intercept and redirect HTTP demands to partner websites that include online advertising companies, " the complaint says.
The CDT wants the FTC to get started on an exploration into the actual Hotspot Shield's "unfair and deceptive transact practices" also to order the company to stop mispresenting privacy and security claims while marketing its software.
This is exactly why I keep suggesting to not to trust anyone. Especially those companies. You know the most successful criminal in the background of the mankind? Businesses. Yep. So beware when you trust one.
