

The company emphasizes that it logs the top domains only, and never records the pages you visit, so an individual activity record might look something like 'At a certain time a user connected from New York City, using Comcast, and transferred 100MB from and 300MB in total.' Psiphon may log the fact that you've visited some of the most popular websites, and the number of bytes transferred. There's the protocol used to connect your city, country and ISP the length of your session, and the number of bytes transferred. Having said that, Psiphon does go on to detail more logging than you might expect.

The company doesn't immediately drown you in cookie names or other technical descriptions, instead making an honest attempt to explain to VPN newbies exactly why they should care (VPNs can see unencrypted traffic, maybe amend it, inject ads, perhaps share data with third parties.) It's great to see a privacy policy (opens in new tab) which tries to begin to explain the basic issues rather than whitewash them, and we wish more providers did the same. Point your browser at the service’s privacy policy and one of the first headings you'll see is 'What user information does Psiphon collect?' While many VPNs invest a great deal of time and effort in pretending they absolutely never log anything at all, ever, no sir, not us sir, Psiphon is a little more honest.

Psiphon is very upfront about the information it collects on its users (Image credit: Psiphon) Privacy Psiphon emerged as the output of a research and development project undertaken by the Citizen Lab as part of work undertaken by the Open Net Initiative. Psiphon maintains a research and development lab at the Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. In 2008 Psiphon was spun off as a Canadian corporation that continues to develop advanced censorship circumvention systems and technologies. Psiphon was originally developed by the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, building upon previous generations of web proxy software systems, such as the "SafeWeb" and "Anonymizer" systems. High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Psiphon is a web proxy designed to help Internet users securely bypass the content-filtering systems used to censor the internet by governments in places like China, North Korea, Iran, Myanmar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Pakistan, Belarus' and others. Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online.
