This is absolutely what it is.
There's two reasons why people do anything — especially people with power to wield (like in a corporation): a good reason and the real reason.

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We handle your sensitive data sensitively according to our Privacy Policy, which we can change at any time!

It's worked on you, hey Hive account@dbooster? One day you might just not start the VPN up again afterwards...