Stack Privacy Research A STACK Investigation NordVPN makes a specific claim, and it’s worth stating precisely. The company says it does not track what you do while connected to its VPN. But it does not pretend to be an anonymous service. Its privacy policy is explicit that it collects “the bare minimum of information needed.” That minimum still … Read more
A named Deloitte assurance report, a previously unreported Panamanian warrant, and where NordVPN’s evidence trail actually holds up Can NordVPN’s central promise, that it does not keep the records that would let anyone reconstruct what a user did online, be trusted? The evidence answers this in two different registers. The technical core of that promise … Read more
ExpressVPN spent more than a decade as a single product with a single job: encrypt a connection and route it through a server network. That is no longer the whole story. The company now sells a tiered subscription that bundles a password manager, an email privacy service, a U.S.-only identity monitoring tool, a browser-based AI … Read more
ExpressVPN is safe with material caveats. Under ordinary conditions (a public Wi-Fi network, an ISP trying to see what you’re doing, the everyday leaks that undermine cheaper or poorly built VPNs) the evidence supports real confidence. That confidence comes from repeated, independent testing of the protocol and the app themselves. It gets thinner the moment … Read more
Two independent audits, one real-world seizure, and the claims that still rest on trust alone ExpressVPN’s privacy claim is simple to state. It says it does not keep the data that could reveal who you are or what you did while connected. Its published privacy policy describes a guiding principle: collect only the minimal data … Read more
ExpressVPN is owned by Kape Technologies. That’s the factual answer. The more useful question is what that ownership tells us about the company’s incentives, strategic direction and the future of one of the world’s largest VPN providers. ExpressVPN spent years building a brand identity around independence. That identity changed in December 2021, when a British … Read more