The company’s VPN app will be a free perk for users who subscribe to the $9.99-a-month 2TB plan on Google One, the company’s cloud storage service.
(Credit: Google) In a bit of irony, Google is launching a VPN service to protect users’ privacy. The VPN will be a free perk to the $9.99-a-month 2TB plan on Google One, the company’s cloud storage service. Soon, the Google One app for Android will display a new function that can activate a VPN over the user’s smartphone. The company is offering the VPN as a safeguard to prevent hackers from snooping on users’ unencrypted web traffic if their phone is ever connected to a public Wi-Fi network. A VPN can stop the potential eavesdropping by encrypting the phone’s internet connection, thereby scrambling the data flowing to and from the device. “We already build advanced security into all our products, and the VPN extends that security to encrypt all of your phone’s online traffic, no matter what app or browser you’re using,” the company wrote in today’s announcement.
