However, combined with the unsettling liberties it takes (see the “Privacy” section), the fact that it’s based in a jurisdiction without many data protections makes me very nervous. If Hotspot Shield had a stellar privacy policy, I might be willing to let this slide. America has data privacy policies that lag behind those in Europe, Canada and other developed nations. Aura, its parent company, is also headquartered in the U.S. Hotspot Shield’s management company, AnchorFree, is based in the United States. Unlike Kape Technologies, one of the foremost drivers of VPN consolidation, it at least never made its money in malware. Aura’s other products focus on financial security and family protection.Īura has no parent company and has a decent record. What we do know for sure is that Hotspot Shield is now owned by Aura, a digital security company previously known for the identity theft protection app Identity Guard.
To keep things as simple as possible, I will call them AnchorFree/Pango for the rest of the review. However, when Aura acquired Hotspot Shield and some of its sister products in 2019, the seller was listed as Pango. I’ve seen it called by at least three different names: AnchorFree, Pango and Dnick.ĪnchorFree seems to be the most common.
Hotspot Shield has maintained the same name since it launched in 2008, but the company that developed it is suffering a decade-long identity crisis. While active, Hotspot Shield conceals your IP address and encrypts all the data you send, making it theoretically impossible to trace anything back to you. Hotspot Shield is a virtual private network (VPN) that you can use to protect your identity and personal information while using the internet. The biggest news recently is the Aura acquisition, which you can read about in the “who owns Hotspot Shield” section below. We’ll update this section if anything major happens concerning Hotspot Shield or any of its parent companies. Hotspot Shield claims to be the world’s fastest VPN.
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