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Deezer has faced significant data-privacy controversies: security researchers and media reported a large breach tied to a third‑party backup that exposed hundreds of millions of user records (reports ...
Court-tested “no-logs” claims have both been upheld and pierced: Windscribe’s founder had criminal charges dismissed in April 2025 after the company could not provide user data , while multiple long-d...
Session has undergone at least one formal third‑party code audit: Quarkslab audited Session’s Android, iOS, and Desktop clients (audit announced April 29, 2021 and discussed repeatedly by Session and ...
Startpage’s privacy guarantees rest on technical design (no logging, anonymizing proxies, and an "Anonymous View" feature) and on legal protections from being headquartered in the Netherlands under EU...
Session advertises and is widely reported as an app that enables anonymous, account‑based messaging without phone numbers or emails and that hides IPs via onion routing and a decentralized node networ...
Multiple mainstream and niche browsers now advertise built-in encryption for either browsing sessions, sync data, or both, but “” means different things in marketing versus cryptographic practice; sou...
Available reporting shows System1 (and its Privacy One Group unit) invested in privacy-focused properties such as Startpage and Waterfox, and company statements insist the investment did not and would...
Free VPNs can work for casual privacy needs but vary sharply in speed, data limits, and trustworthiness; major reviewers name Proton VPN, Hotspot Shield, PrivadoVPN and others as top free options whil...
Yes — you can get a truly free VPN, and major reviewers in 2025 single out Proton VPN’s free tier as the best fully free option because it offers unlimited data, no ads and a no-logs policy; PCMag, ZD...
Users can reduce the chance a VPN provider can hand over identifiable data by choosing services with independently audited no‑logs policies, privacy‑friendly jurisdictions, RAM‑only or “diskless” serv...