beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-221 hours agoProton analyzed 7,000+ mobile VPN apps. 64 apps actively collect physical location via GPS or other geolocation, 3 are owned by market research firms, and 85% of them contain trackers.protonvpn.comexternal-linkmessage-square33linkfedilinkarrow-up1202arrow-down116file-text
arrow-up1186arrow-down1external-linkProton analyzed 7,000+ mobile VPN apps. 64 apps actively collect physical location via GPS or other geolocation, 3 are owned by market research firms, and 85% of them contain trackers.protonvpn.combeep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-221 hours agomessage-square33linkfedilinkfile-text
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1366113/proton-analyzed-7000-mobile-vpn-apps-64-apps-actively-collect-physical-location-via-gps
minus-squareValmond@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down3·8 hours agoShould be avoided.
Should be avoided.