Fairphone vs NordVPN
Based on our analysis, Fairphone is the more privacy-respecting choice overall.
BACK →| Category | Fairphone | NordVPN |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | B- · 68/100 | C+ · 62/100 |
| What they collect | Mixed (65) | Mixed (65) |
| Who they share it with | Mixed (72) | Mixed (58) |
| What you can do | Mixed (63) | Mixed (68) |
| What they promise | Mixed (68) | Mixed (60) |
Fairphone doesn't sell your data and has a genuinely ethical mission, but it runs retargeting ads, sends your full IP address to Bloomreach for segmentation, keeps contract data for a minimum of seven years, defaults to anonymisation rather than deletion when you ask for your data to be removed, and forum posts older than 60 days can never be fully deleted.
View full analysis →NordVPN genuinely doesn't log your VPN activity — that part of the privacy pitch holds up — but outside the tunnel it runs a large advertising and analytics infrastructure full of US-based trackers, shares data within a broad corporate group, markets to you for a year after you cancel, and retains billing records for a decade.
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