PUBLISHER ANCHORFREE INC SOFTWARE
When Net Neutrality got repealed at the end of last year, we launched a free software development kit for any app developer to drop into their app and protect their traffic from ISPs discriminating against it or ISPs collecting user data. In March of 2017 the FCC allowed ISPs to collect and sell user data, Hotspot Shield experienced a major spike in users looking to protect themselves from ISP tracking. In a number of recent major security and privacy breaches, Hotspot Shield played a substantial role.įor example during the recent Krack vulnerability that found that every Wi-Fi network (even your password protected home and office Wi-Fi) are unsafe and are easily compromised by hackers, we played a major role enabling users to secure their Wi-Fi. Are you doing anything to remediate this? In a recent interview with the NYT, you mentioned that VPN wouldn't have protected people affected by some of the biggest privacy/data related scandals of 2018. While other VPN protocols send traffic via slow congested channels and slow down substantially over long distance, Hydra is specifically designed to send packets with the most advanced performance acceleration and reduce congestion. Hydra is a data transport protocol that accelerates the performance of data transfer over multiple channels, we have substantial intellectual property around performance acceleration with the biggest impact over long distance connections. How is AnchorFree's Hydra protocol different from the others? We recently launched Hotspot Shield for Business (opens in new tab). Do you have any plans to conquer the B2B VPN market? The bulk of your business is one in the B2C market. Why a VPN could be your best friend online.
We believe transparency and trust are key to choosing a security product that users and businesses can trust.
The study found that only three companies were actually transparent and published official transparency reports, and out of the three AnchorFree was the only company that shared no information with governments, while the others have.
PUBLISHER ANCHORFREE INC ANDROID
AnchorFree’s technology both powers Hotspot Shield (which is a top 100 most downloaded app on both iOS and Android with 650 million downloads globally) and is used by 60% of the world’s largest security companies and a number of large telcos.ĪV-Test did a follow-up report on the transparency and trust of the VPN industry and found that most VPN companies are not transparent about how they handle user data and in many cases shady VPN companies don’t even disclose where they are based, their management teams, investors, Board, etc.