Your internet service provider can sell your browsing history to the highest bidder. That’s the creepy truth internet users are worried about.
One of the main reasons to use a VPN is to keep your information private, particularly while you’re browsing the Web. But here is a new report claims that 26 of 115 of the most popular VPNs are keeping logs on you and your use of their service.
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Many websites, services, software, etc., promise not to track you, keep your login information and data, etc. VPNs do the same, and it seems even more crucial that they not keep such information, as they’re charged with making sure than your browsing is secure. The Best VPN investigated 115 of the more popular VPN services and found 26 of them collected three or more log files that include personal and identifying information. This includes IP addresses, locations, bandwidth data, and connection timestamps.
This comes at an interesting time, when Facebook is being called out for sharing users’ data, making many want to drop the service. Yet another service they were counting on to protect their privacy has been holding onto their information. In fact the VPN industry is increasing in popularity. In 2014 it was a $45 billion business, and it’s expected to increase to $70 billion by 2019.
The lesson here is of course that no Internet Services can be trusted to keep your info safe. Not only can Facebook and Google not be trusted, but no service can be, not even one that is supposed to be helping you keep your information private.
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