asked2manyquestions t1_j5r5qcq wrote on January 24, 2023 at 11:57 PM

Reply to comment by realmastodon2 in TikTok reportedly threatened to terminate remote employees who don't live near their assigned office location by Sorin61

I know that. You know that. Most people don’t.

I us d to work for a company where we had to know exactly where our software was being used from for legal reasons.

VPN doesn’t help with things like WiFi triangulation. They read all of the WiFi networks your receiver can see and compare it to a database of known WiFi networks that companies like Google sell.

realmastodon2 t1_j5ravei wrote on January 25, 2023 at 12:33 AM

Tinfoil hat on: tech companies can just ask VPN companies about this IP and who uses it.

Reality they know your router.

asked2manyquestions t1_j5rjlb9 wrote on January 25, 2023 at 1:35 AM

Any VPN company that released such information would likely not stay in business long.

It’s bad enough that some hand over the data to governments, but to corporations? Suicide.