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posted by takyon on Wednesday September 05 2018, @01:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the eyerim dept.

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NordVPN Responds to Privacy Sensitive Allegations

Over the past several weeks there have been repeated efforts to place NordVPN is a bad light. The company is being linked to Tesonet, one of Lithuania's largest tech companies, which runs data mining and residential proxy services. NordVPN says that these activities have nothing to do with their company and have retained a large auditing firm to back this up.

[...] The situation didn't improve when Tesonet was sued by Luminati, the company behind the "not so private" VPN service Hola. The complaint accuses Tesonet of infringing Luminati's proxy patents and NordVPN is listed is the suit as well, with the claim that it had a business relationship with Hola. TorrentFreak previously asked NordVPN about the allegations and the company said that they are operated by the Panamese company Tefincom, which also has the NordVPN trademark. Tesonet is closely related to the company, but it doesn't legally own and never owned NordVPN.

NordVPN initially opted not to comment publicly but that changed when a new storm of mostly 'fake' Twitter accounts (many of which were created years ago but have only tweeted on this particular issue) made themselves heard over the past days. "We realized that remaining silent is no longer an option and we must respond for the sake of our reputation," NordVPN wrote in a recent blog post.

NordVPN responds to several claims including that they are operating the same way as Hola, by selling users' bandwidth. This is something anyone can verify independently, they say, by monitoring their traffic via a network monitoring application. "Anyone with Wireshark (or any other similar app) and some networking knowledge can perform a network scan, check all requests made by the NordVPN application, and verify their destinations. The results will prove that the web scraping accusations are false," the company writes.

Here's a 2015 story about Hola.

Also at VPN Compare.


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