An Android 16 VPN bypass has been confirmed, affecting all VPN apps and exposing your real IP address online, but Google has marked the vulnerability report as won't fix.
Google Play, Android's official app store, is now tagging VPN apps with an 'independent security reviews' badge if they conducted an independent security audit of their software and platform.
Editor's take: In theory, VPN services and applications are meant to offer customers enhanced privacy and data security online. In practice, however, an alarmingly high number of VPNs fail to deliver ...