https://www.ft.com/content/e5567d8a-ee65-11e8-89c8-d36339d835c0
By Madhumita Murgia
European Technology Correspondent
FT.com
NOVEMBER 22, 2018
More than half of the world's 30 most popular smartphone apps for browsing
the internet privately are owned by Chinese companies, according to a new
study that raises significant privacy concerns.
Seventeen of the apps, which offer to connect users to the internet
through a secure tunnel known as a "virtual private network" (VPN), were
owned either by Chinese companies or companies appearing to have links to
China.
Collectively, the apps, which include TurboVPN, VPN Proxy Master, VPN 360
and Snap VPN, have been downloaded more than 100m times on Android devices
and iPhones.
But the companies operating them often had very limited privacy policies,
said Simon Migliano, the head of research at Top10VPN.com, which reviews
VPN services.
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