AnchorFree complied with none of the requests. The first one, issued in November, showed the company received 81 requests for user data from government agencies in the first 10 months of 2017 and 79 in 2016. But after the criticism, the company rewrote its terms of service, to avoid legalese, and AnchorFree began to release transparency reports. In 2017, the Center for Democracy and Technology, a nonprofit that promotes digital rights, asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate AnchorFree and Hotspot Shield, accusing the company of deceptively redirecting users to certain websites and sharing data.ĪnchorFree, which has denied the allegations, declined to comment on the investigation. The company recently added a product specifically for businesses. Hotspot Shield is free, but a small percentage of users pay a monthly fee for extra features, including faster internet speeds, the ability choose their internet server, and added protection from phishing, malware and spam. It has just 110 employees 80 are engineers, and it has no salespeople. The company said it has been profitable since 2010. The companies split revenue earned from anyone who becomes a paying customer.
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Samsung Galaxy phones come loaded with AnchorFree’s VPN software Verizon and Telefónica license it as well.
Many of AnchorFree’s competitors license its technology, including Bitdefender, Dashlane, Kaspersky and McAfee.ĪnchorFree’s tech is also prevalent in smartphones and the products of telecommunications companies.
“They are marketing themselves as ‘sprinkle our security or privacy dust on your device and suddenly it will become private and secure,’” said Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit focused on digital rights.ĪnchorFree made for an attractive venture investment because the technology it has built on top of the open-sourced VPN software makes it faster than other VPN services, said Sujay Jaswa, a partner at WndrCo, the investment firm that led the latest round of financing. Still others obscure what a VPN can actually protect people from. Others say they are based in the United States or the Cayman Islands but actually operate out of countries with censorious governments.
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Some free services log users’ browsing data and sell it or turn it over to governments when asked.
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