Samsung vs Mullvad VPN
Based on our analysis, Mullvad VPN is the more privacy-respecting choice overall.
BACK →| Category | Samsung | Mullvad VPN |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | D · 39/100 | A · 93/100 |
| What they collect | Concern (25) | Positive (95) |
| Who they share it with | Concern (32) | Positive (92) |
| What you can do | Mixed (50) | Positive (85) |
| What they promise | Mixed (45) | Positive (90) |
Samsung's data appetite is unusually broad for a hardware maker: voice recordings stored on servers with potential third-party retention, keyboard input logging via Predictive Text synced across devices, and persistent hardware identifiers that survive ad-ID resets. The company explicitly acknowledges that sharing with business partners may constitute a data sale under US law (CCPA). Full GDPR-grade rights are reserved for EEA/UK/Swiss residents; everyone else gets basic access and deletion with no response-time commitments. Retention timelines are vague and there are no named security certifications or breach notification windows.
View full analysis →Mullvad collects almost nothing — no account names, no activity logs, no IP retention — and the policy is short because there's genuinely very little to say; what little data does get processed (payments, support emails) has hard, specific deletion windows and never leaves the EU.
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