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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...
DuckDuckGo has commissioned and published some third‑party security audits — notably a 2024 external audit of its VPN conducted by Securitum — and maintains public pages about Content Security Policy ...
DuckDuckGo’s built‑in VPN has improved into a competent, lightweight option: it passed DNS leak tests in independent hands-on reviews and underwent an infrastructure audit (Securitum) that found no lo...
DuckDuckGo publishes some apps and extensions as open source and says it makes “the source code and data for many of our products and features available under open source licenses” . The company has a...
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 ...
Proton VPN’s stated no-logs policy promises that the service does not keep session logs, connection metadata, DNS queries, or other information that could personally identify user activity while conne...
Known independent assessments and disclosures have tested elements of DuckDuckGo’s privacy and encryption posture: a widely reported third‑party audit in 2022 that flagged a Microsoft-related “data fl...
Independent verification of VPN no‑logs promises is done through commissioned third‑party audits that inspect policies, configurations, staff practices and technical systems to confirm a provider’s cl...
DuckDuckGo has published the full third‑party security audit of its VPN conducted by Securitum and makes that report available through its help pages, stating the audit found no critical vulnerabiliti...
DuckDuckGo’s VPN is a relatively new, modestly sized network: public reporting and DuckDuckGo’s own materials describe a global set of server locations and reviewers report a network measured in tens ...
ProtonVPN maintains a strict that declares the company does not record users’ online activity, connection metadata, IP addresses, session lengths, or DNS queries, and this claim is backed by public co...
ProtonVPN combines technical controls—strong encryption, Secure Core routing, kill‑switches, and open‑source clients—with policy commitments such as an audited no‑logs rule and regular transparency re...
NordVPN, Proton VPN and Mullvad take different approaches to transparency reporting: NordVPN publishes regular (quarterly/monthly) reports on government and DMCA requests and shifted from a warrant ca...
DuckDuckGo has published at least one formal, third-party security audit for its VPN service carried out by Securitum in October 2024, but the public record in the supplied reporting contains no equiv...
DuckDuckGo has undergone at least one independent technical audit focused on its VPN products (Securitum, October 2024), but there is no evidence in the provided reporting of a comprehensive, independ...
DuckDuckGo publicly asserts a strict no-logs posture in its privacy policy and operational descriptions , and several outlets and reviewers report third‑party testing or audits of particular DuckDuckG...
A small group of mainstream VPNs has real-world evidence—court fights, seizures, or audits—that their no-logs promises held up under legal pressure: notable examples frequently named in industry repor...
DuckDuckGo has undergone a mix of third‑party technical reviews and public scrutiny: the company commissioned a security audit of its VPN that reported no critical vulnerabilities, and it publishes Co...
Independent no-logs audits combine technical inspection, live-server verification, configuration reviews and policy interviews to test whether a VPN actually avoids collecting user activity and metada...
Available sources document that DuckDuckGo’s “Smarter Encryption” feature (used in its mobile app and browser extensions) is a company‑maintained list that forces HTTPS when available and covers milli...