Many of the top VPN services and mobile apps, some with 100M+ downloads, have misled users about their practices or disguised their origins, like ties to China (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)

Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
Many of the top VPN services and mobile apps, some with 100M+ downloads, have misled users about their practices or disguised their origins, like ties to China  —  SAN FRANCISCO — As Congress weighs an unprecedented ban of the wildly popular Chinese-owned TikTok over supposed security concerns …