Norton vs Keeper

Norton (Gen Digital) collects some of the most sensitive personal data of any consumer service — Social Security numbers, bank account details, driver's licence numbers, and mother's maiden name for LifeLock identity monitoring — while simultaneously running a targeted advertising business that shares user, device, and website data with advertising partners; network traffic and screen activity are monitored for security purposes; and data flows broadly across Gen Digital's corporate group, distributors, resellers, marketing partners, and analytics providers, all retained for vaguely defined periods.

Keeper is a zero-knowledge password manager with SOC 2, ISO 27001, and FedRAMP High certification — among the strongest independent security credentials of any password manager — and it cannot access your vault contents under any circumstances; the main caveats are that it is a US company (Chicago) hosted on AWS subject to US legal process, uses cookies and marketing tracking on its website, retains data for vaguely defined periods, and enterprise account admins can access usage and interaction data for employees on business plans.