This is the opposite of privacy and you should be ashamed. You sold all of your customers’ info to Intel/McAfee at a price.
I don’t believe intel owns mcafee anymore.
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#42I'll save some of you the task of searching through their FAQ if you want to cancel your account. https://www.tunnelbear.com/account#/remove
“We’re sorry but we can’t cancel your account automatically. Please contact support.” Yeah...
I had the same issue, was hoping it was isolated to my account. What unfortunate timing.
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#43Nice while it lasted. Any alternative recommendations for less tech-oriented folks? TunnelBear has been what I pointed friends and relations towards historically.
Background: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29
Best recommendation: Get a cheap server from LowEndBox and setup OpenVPN (or, hopefully in 2019, WireGuard) for your less tech-oriented friends.
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#45This 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…
> ... we will ensure that such a third party has entered into an agreement under which the use of your Personal Information is only related to purposes necessary for the transaction.
Wow, that is the opposite of reassuring. The "purposes" could easily be "better profiling you to price insurance policies."
Most T&Cs aren't worth reading. They can be summed up as "by having seen this document, you have agreed to let us do whatever we want forever," and what really matters is whether such contracts are legally enforceable where you live.
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#46I don’t understand why people used them they didn’t had an explicit no logging no retention policy and they are located well within the reach of the US legal system as they were a Canadian company.
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#48Nice while it lasted. Any alternative recommendations for less tech-oriented folks? TunnelBear has been what I pointed friends and relations towards historically.
Background: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29 Best recommendation: Get a cheap server from LowEndBox and setup OpenVPN (or, hopefully in 2019, WireGuard) for your less tech-oriented friends.
That'll only get you a single IP in a single country though.
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#49Also important: "TunnelBear is now part of McAfee, a US based company" =
customer information can be subject to US court orders.
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#50Why 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.
We're using McAfee where I work, which should cover 2100 emplyees, perhaps more if the parent company (Assa Abloy) is using it too. It is also used to scan the files during the build process of our deliverables, which easily add hours to a full rebuild.