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Google adds always-on VPN to its Project Fi cellular service

• ericd 8y ago
  They say that Fi only works on a few Android phones, but as far as I’ve been able to tell, it works well on iPhones as well.
• watermelon0 8y ago
  Does that mean that they can inspect all of your traffic (or at least the metadata since most sites are served via TLS nowadays)? I'm not implying they are doing that, but it's an interesting thought.
• wtmt 8y ago
  > “...you’ll have the peace of mind of knowing that others can’t see your online activity," Google's blog post says. "That includes Google—our VPN is designed so that your traffic isn’t tied to your Google account or phone number.” It doesn’t mention logging the traffic (even metadata) and what it would do with the logs. Any VPN service that you don’t run yourself requires you to trust the provider. Centralized (and large or widespread) services by companies remains a concern, as with many online platforms and services. Would I trust Google more than my ISP or some random VPN provider? Very likely, yes. But this is still worrying.
  • tjmehta 8y ago
    Basically they will be collecting anonymized traffic data.. This enables them to collect all of a user’s traffic data on mobile.