A new app that plugs privacy gaps for Mac users

NEW DELHI, INDIA: A research survey conducted by F-Secure indicates that Mac users take more risks with their online privacy than their PC counterparts, and take fewer precautions. Approximately 36% of Mac users surveyed use public Wi-Fi hotspots more than 3 times a week – that’s 13% more than PC users.

The same study found that 32% of Mac users either didn’t know or didn’t use any kind of online protection, compared with only 10% of PC users. These gaps add up to a huge risk for large numbers of Mac users.

F-Secure’s new Freedome for Mac app addresses the needs of Mac users by wrapping a comprehensive set of protection tools into a single, easy-to-use app.

Freedome creates a secure VPN tunnel for Internet traffic, which protects users against criminals looking to intercept communications, companies trying to track online behavior, and malicious websites trying to infect computers. It also lets users choose from a selection of 17 virtual locations that can help them circumvent the geo-blocks used to restrict access to region locked content.

Freedome for Mac is now available for a free trial, and annual subscriptions can be purchased for a small fee. There are also multi-device subscriptions that can help people protect combinations of OS X, Windows PC, Android, iOS, and Amazon Fire devices.