88 percent of free Android VPNs leak data

New research from Top10VPN has captured and analyzed the network traffic of the 100 most popular free VPNs on Google's Play Store and reviewed their source code. The findings are rather worrying, showing that 88 percent suffer some kind of data leak (IP, DNS, WebRTC) with 17 percent affected by multiple leaks. In addition 71 percent share personal data with third parties, including Facebook, Yandex and controversial data brokers like Kochava. 15 percent contain Bytedance tracking code, while 53 percent contain at least one function in their own source code that poses a potential risk to user privacy and requests… [Continue Reading]