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ProtonVPN publicly asserts a strict stance and routinely rejects foreign law enforcement demands unless routed through Swiss legal assistance; when Swiss courts have ordered assistance, ProtonVPN ofte...
ProtonVPN says it operates under Swiss law with a strict no‑logs policy and repeatedly states it cannot provide connection logs because it is not obligated to retain them; Proton’s transparency report...
Multiple reporting and VPN-provider guides identify a core set of countries that either ban VPNs and Tor outright, or permit only government‑approved “anonymizers”; common names across sources include...
Available reporting and guides consistently say a small group of authoritarian states both block and seek to criminalize tools for anonymity such as Tor — most frequently named are China, Iran, Russia...
Using the Tor Browser together with a VPN can provide ; the most defensible setup is “Tor-over-VPN” (You → VPN → Tor → Internet) because it hides your IP from Tor entry nodes while still using Tor’s a...
Proton VPN maintains a strict no-logs policy and publishes transparency reports saying it has denied legal requests for VPN user data—Proton reported 29 legal requests as of June 2025 and states all 2...
Proton’s public materials and reporting consistently state Proton VPN is a Swiss, no‑logs VPN and that Swiss law prevents gag orders the way U.S. national security letters do; Proton says it has no le...
Proton’s public position: as a Swiss company it says it only must obey Swiss court orders and “to date we have not received any court order” for ProtonVPN — its transparency report shows denials of fo...
ProtonVPN’s Secure Core routes user traffic through a hardened, multi-hop architecture that places an initial connection inside before exiting to a standard VPN server, intending to protect against co...
Combining ProtonVPN’s Secure Core with Tor (Proton’s “Tor over VPN” option) layers Proton’s multi‑hop VPN routing through privacy‑friendly countries with the Tor network’s onion routing, offering stro...
Proton VPN’s Secure Core is a provider-controlled “multihop” setup that routes traffic through at least two VPN servers (one in a privacy-friendly, secure jurisdiction) before it leaves Proton’s netwo...
Using a VPN before Tor (VPN→Tor) will generally hide from your ISP that you are connecting to the Tor network, because the ISP only sees an encrypted connection to the VPN server rather than a Tor ent...
Swiss privacy laws create a mixed landscape for VPN providers: , but recent proposed changes to Swiss surveillance and encryption rules have prompted concerns that those protections could be eroded. T...
If you connect to a VPN first and then open Tor (“Tor over VPN” or “Onion over VPN”), the VPN provider can see that you are opening an encrypted connection to the Tor network (specifically the Tor gua...
ProtonVPN’s Secure Core servers are hosted in three privacy-focused countries: Switzerland, Iceland, and Sweden, and route traffic through these hardened entry servers before exiting to a public VPN s...
Several VPN providers have demonstrably complied with government or law‑enforcement requests, producing records that contradicted marketing claims of total anonymity; notable, documented examples incl...
ProtonVPN maintains a public , but the timeline and granularity of updates in the provided analyses show inconsistencies and gaps. The clearest recent claim in the dataset is a ProtonVPN transparency ...
ProtonVPN has faced multiple legal and regulatory confrontations over privacy and compliance, including a landmark Swiss court victory in 2021 that limited surveillance obligations for VPN providers a...
ProtonVPN publishes a Transparency Report and Warrant Canary that lists legal requests and states the company’s position that Swiss law makes a traditional warrant canary “not meaningful,” because tar...
Proton VPN is domiciled in Switzerland and says under Swiss law it is not required to retain connection logs; the company maintains a strict audited no-logs policy and reports that it has received 29 ...