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Italy Bans VPN Extension Over Major Privacy Violations

12/20/2025

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Italy banned the Urban VPN Proxy Chrome extension over privacy concerns.
Koi, a Tel Aviv-based security firm, found that the extension used by six million users collects conversations from AI platforms and sells them to brokers.
Users must uninstall the extension to stop data collection.
Idan Dardikman of Koi warned that conversations since July 2025 may have been compromised, and seven other extensions by the same publisher show similar data-harvesting.

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Italy banned the Urban VPN Proxy Chrome extension over privacy concerns.
Koi, a Tel Aviv-based security firm, found that the extension used by six million users collects conversations from AI platforms and sells them to brokers.
Users must uninstall the extension to stop data collection.
Idan Dardikman of Koi warned that conversations since July 2025 may have been compromised, and seven other extensions by the same publisher show similar data-harvesting.