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TunnelBear Joins McAfee

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Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee

#21
post #13

Nice while it lasted. Any alternative recommendations for less tech-oriented folks? TunnelBear has been what I pointed friends and relations towards historically.

Private Internet Access is my suggestion given their support of EFF, FFTF, Creative Commons, as well as the greater FOSS community. Full disclosure: I work at Private Internet Access.

Can second PIA. Used it for years now and its solid. And I'm not affiliated in any way with it, just a happy customer

Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee

#22
post #17
post #6

This is the opposite of privacy and you should be ashamed. You sold all of your customers’ info to Intel/McAfee at a price.

They have a very detailed and plainly written privacy policy which details what information is gathered and how it is used. If their customers put a premium on privacy they should have read the privacy policy prior to using the service and understood Tunnelbear's obligations under it. As long as Tunnelbear has met them they have nothing to be ashamed of. It even addresses the possibility of being acquired and the imp…

OK, so you’re blaming the customers for not carefully reading the privacy policy? I understand that people should read things, but they don’t. They read the marketing text where Tunnelbear claimed to “really really” care about privacy.

Further, they gave all of the personal information since it was all necessary for the transaction.

Unsustainable VPN companies that operate at low margins to sell to the highest bidder like this are the exact opposite of privacy conscious. :(

Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee

#23
post #13

Nice while it lasted. Any alternative recommendations for less tech-oriented folks? TunnelBear has been what I pointed friends and relations towards historically.

These guys are great: https://encrypt.me I used them when I was freelancing and working on public wifi. Super easy to use and reliable.

Heads-up: Encrypt.me logs your IP address when connecting!

Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee

#24
FWIW, I'm pretty sure the market segment of tunnelbear users were people dodging network restrictions, not people who valued privacy much.

That aside, there are exceptions and someone is getting fucked over.

Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee

#25
post #17
post #6

This is the opposite of privacy and you should be ashamed. You sold all of your customers’ info to Intel/McAfee at a price.

They have a very detailed and plainly written privacy policy which details what information is gathered and how it is used. If their customers put a premium on privacy they should have read the privacy policy prior to using the service and understood Tunnelbear's obligations under it. As long as Tunnelbear has met them they have nothing to be ashamed of. It even addresses the possibility of being acquired and the imp…

I wish I had your optimism. Rule of thumb is that all informal agreements go out the window after an acquisition. Why would the board of McAfee care about a policy they didn't approve and aren't legally bound to?

Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee

#26
Why does Intel wants TunnelBear?

I dont see the logic behind this, any one could explain?

P.S Is anyone still using McAfee ? It seems Symantec has taken up most of the enterprise sales, while consumer are happy with Windows default protection.

Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee

#27
post #4

I don't get this kind of purchases. If McAfee intends to just let TunnelBear be TunnelBear, then what they're after must the business (as in the profit). In that case would there be more business sense in not selling, from the TunnelBear perspective? Edit: Also TunnelBear isn't joining McAfee, or I doubt that they are. McAfee BOUGHT them. Joining implies that you merged the two businesses with no money changing hands…

There are lots of legal implications when one company buys another, even if they don't merge. But these implications go both ways, so it can get funny with things like GDPR.

Re: TunnelBear Joins McAfee

#29
post #6

This is the opposite of privacy and you should be ashamed. You sold all of your customers’ info to Intel/McAfee at a price.

To add insult to injury, they collected tens of thousands of dollars in Q3 and Q4 of 2017 from the National Research Council of Canada:

$45,000 : https://nrc-cnrc.explorecatena.com/en/details/LOakjNa8v3uKlv...

$20,000 : https://nrc-cnrc.explorecatena.com/en/details/gk2Mb423DZh69n...

$20,000 : https://nrc-cnrc.explorecatena.com/en/details/wkBxj3BzKrhwr6...

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