Hundreds of Millions Have Downloaded Suspicious VPN Apps With Serious Privacy Flaws. Apple and Google Haven’t Taken Action. Posted byHayden Field August 7, 2019 Leave a comment on Hundreds of Millions Have Downloaded Suspicious VPN Apps With Serious Privacy Flaws. Apple and Google Haven’t Taken Action. Disturbing research suggests that nearly 90 percent of the most popular free VPN apps on Apple and Google’s app stores have serious user privacy flaws.