 Tuesday, August 8, 2017 in Security  2 Comments |  | On Monday, the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) - a US-based privacy group - filed a complaint with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accusing one of today's top VPN providers of deceptive trade practices.
In a 14-page complaint, the CDT accuses AnchorFree - the company behind the Hotspot Shield VPN - of breaking promises it made to its users by sharing their private web traffic with online advertisers for the purpose of improving the ads shown to its users.
Currently, Hotspot Shield is offered as a free and paid product. The free product injects ads in users' web traffic, and the elite version provides an ad-free VPN experience.
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