{"id":193990,"date":"2025-04-02T00:38:55","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.telecomstechnews.com\/?p=101546"},"modified":"2025-04-02T00:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:38:55","slug":"tech-transparency-project-millions-download-covert-chinese-vpns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=193990","title":{"rendered":"Tech Transparency Project: Millions download covert Chinese VPNs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) has found that millions of Americans have downloaded VPNs that secretly route their internet traffic through Chinese companies, with several linked to a firm previously sanctioned by the US government for ties to China&#8217;s military. The report found that one in five of the top 100 free<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telecomstechnews.com\/news\/tech-transparency-project-millions-download-covert-chinese-vpns\/\" title=\"ReadTech Transparency Project: Millions download covert Chinese VPNs\">&#8230; Read more &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telecomstechnews.com\/news\/tech-transparency-project-millions-download-covert-chinese-vpns\/\">Tech Transparency Project: Millions download covert Chinese VPNs<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telecomstechnews.com\/\">Telecoms Tech News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation by the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) has found that millions of Americans have downloaded VPNs that secretly route their internet traffic through Chinese companies, with several linked to a firm previously sanctioned by the US govern&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5075,118,4420,5049,4697,1633,5056,6243,5042,8868,3333,16182,5044,8869],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadband","category-china","category-connectivity","category-cyber-security","category-cybersecurity","category-government","category-infosec","category-legislation-government","category-networks","category-privacy","category-security","category-tech-transparency-project","category-telecoms","category-vpn"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193991,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193990\/revisions\/193991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}