To bend to the will of a foreign intelligence agency–especially the US–further betrays users’ trust. The “no logging” claim misrepresents the truth the company stores information that can identify users and be used to corroborate their online activity. Pure VPN advertises itself as a no-logs VPN provider, despite stating that it collects users’ IP addresses in its privacy policy. The report does not state whether the FBI had a court order, but because PureVPN is incorporated in Hong Kong and the FBI is an American intelligence agency, one would assume PureVPN had legal grounds to reject the request for data. It’s not clear what those logs contained, but the report does mention an IP address that was used to log into a victim’s Gmail account.
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Update on October 9, 2017: PureVPN handed over logs to the FBI that led to the arrest of an alleged cyber stalker in the US, reports BleepingComputer. The company itself is headquartered in Hong Kong because it has “no mandatory data retention laws.” It does however log the time that you signed in and used the service and the IP address that you connected to. “ We Do Not monitor user activity nor do we keep any logs,” says PureVPN, which means it has no record of the sites that you visit. The company meanwhile makes it privacy policy clear online. On the security front, PureVPN offers the protocols of PPTP, L2TP, SSTP, SSL, and 128-bit encryption, which is common for most VPN providers, as well as Secure DNS and a VPN kill switch, which will terminate your connection if it ever becomes unsecure. It’s one of the more high profile providers out there, largely thanks to its large user base and server network.Īs of this writing it has more than 500 servers placed around the world in 180 locations in 121 countries, which makes it one of the biggest VPN server networks out there.
If you’re on the hunt for a VPN provider you’ve most likely heard of PureVPN.
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