“If the product is free, you are the product.”

You can apply that thinking to pretty much anything supported by advertising or data collection, including tools like Chrome and Gmail. (And you’re not paying to read these words, are you? Food for thought.) But one VPN tool, claiming to increase user privacy and security, might be snooping on the people it’s claiming to protect.

That’s the claim put forth by Koi Security , a software vendor that also investigates other applications. According to its report, the “FreeVPN.One” virtual private network, available as an extension of the Chrome browser, is peeping on its users in a variety of ways. First and most concerningly, the extension appears to take a screenshot of every single website the user visits, even waiting a second after the pag

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