Brave Private Web Browser, VPN

"On Android, we rely on the Safe Browsing functionality built into the operating system. Any requests to Google servers made by this component (by the Brave app or by another app) will expose your device IP address to Google. On iOS, we use the Safe Browsing functionality provided by Safari. This functionality uses Google and Tencent Safe Browsing services depending on your region. Apple proxies requests to these services, exposing your device IP address to Apple."

Despite Brave's privacy-first branding, Safe Browsing on mobile platforms exposes user IP addresses to Google, Apple, or Tencent depending on device and region, with no ability for Brave to proxy these requests.

"Brave IPFS Public Gateway — Purpose of processing: To allow access to IPFS content when the user cannot access it via a local IPFS node. Categories of personal data processed: IP address. Duration of storage: Indefinite. (Protocol Labs). Brave may retain some crash reports indefinitely, if useful for testing."

IP addresses processed through the IPFS public gateway are retained indefinitely by Protocol Labs, and Brave reserves the right to retain crash reports indefinitely for testing purposes, with no clear deletion timeline.

"We'll update this policy whenever we make material changes to our practices, and we'll announce it to let you know. We hope you'll find any changes agreeable, but if you're not comfortable with changes to the info we collect or how we use it, we understand your choice to stop using Brave."

Brave can unilaterally change its privacy policy and frames continued use as implicit acceptance, with the only recourse being to stop using the product.

"If you grant permission, the website will be sent an approximation of where you are located based on your IP address and information your operating system may provide, for example, the names of nearby WiFi access points. Categories of personal data processed: IP address, and information about nearby WiFi access points (MAC address, signal strength, and SSID)."

Brave accesses WiFi access point data including MAC addresses and signal strength to estimate user location, though this requires user permission and is shared with the requesting website, not Brave itself.

"When Brave crashes or freezes, it creates a report that can be sent to us to help us diagnose and fix whatever caused the problem. This report contains technical information about your computer system and the event causing the problem. Device model, iOS version, language, timezone, CPU architecture, carrier, connection status."

Crash reports collect detailed device information including device model, OS version, CPU architecture, carrier, and connection status, sent to third-party service Backtrace.io for storage.