New research from ICFP Fellow Benjamin Mixon-Baca finds that eight providers of popular, commercial VPN applications appear to hide the ownership and operations of their services, and contain serious privacy and security issues that put more than 700 million users at risk of authoritarian surveillance. Three of these providers are linked to the PLA and there is evidence that a Chinese national owns all eight. Key Findings: Commercial VPNs serving over 700 million users with poor transparency sta...