Era Of Virtual Private Networks Selling User Information Ends With Launch Of Rubica
SEATTLE, July 30, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Though virtual private networks (VPNs) were created to protect consumer's privacy, last year TechRepublic exposed the fact that many VPN companies sell the information they claim to protect. This year, a group of global VIP cybersecurity experts and a former hacker from a Seattle-based company called Rubica, are refusing to follow suit. As such, Rubica announced a "We Will Never Sell Your Data Guarantee," a promise to never sell customer data or they will pay consumers 3X the amount received.
"Your digital footprint is as rare and important as your own human fingerprint," said CEO of Rubica, Frances Dewing. "We are against the practice of selling customer data - the very information that a VPN should aim to protect," added Dewing. "We want our customers to know this isn't an empty promise, so we put it in our legal terms of service as an enforceable commitment to every user. Coming from a social justice legal background, I am dedicated to ensuring that a private network stays private, that a consumer's data remains in their control, and that we move quickly toward a protection standard for all."
"Digital privacy needs to be prioritized and democratized," said President of Rubica, Roderick Jones. "Selling consumer data is a multi-billion-dollar business. We are boldly warning consumers: anything free online comes with a catch. The reason why email services or handy mortgage calculators are free is because they are gathering and selling your data. The very nature of a VPN is to serve as a protection net. Selling the data of the consumers it claims to protect is unethical."
Rubica is the first proactive cybersecurity product that uses elite enterprise techniques and tools to keep consumers as safe as the presidents, prime ministers, and billionaires who the founders also serve. With a deep understanding of the sophisticated $600 billion-dollar cybercrime industry, Rubica is a greater-good technology aiming to bring meaningful protection to consumers - with a business model that will never profit from exploiting consumer data. The up-to-the-minute technology blocks everything from malware, malicious sites and downloads, phishing sites, unusual traffic, and ad trackers (which on any day might add up to 20 on a regular-use smartphone) before they infect a device.
About: Seattle-based Rubica provides government-grade VPN and cybersecurity products to consumers so that threats can be found before damage occurs and offers on-call experts for those who have experienced a loss. The subscription-based line of products come from a heritage of technology originally designed for heads of nation states and global billionaires and was architected by top security experts from the NSA, DOD, and Scotland Yard. Rubica never sells customers data and is guided by a core principle of protecting the individual's digital right to security and privacy.
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