Comment by codethief
4 years ago
Thank you, this was the response I was looking for!
> Our intent was direct political action through entrepreneurship.
Again, I didn't mean to question your intent – as I said my impression of your company so far has been a very good one! :)
> We have 762 servers spread across 38 countries. Less than 10% of our servers are located in Sweden [0].
My apologies, it's been a few years since I last looked at your server locations (so I didn't remember) and I was probably getting the wrong impression from the fact that your post is only mentioning server locations in Sweden.
> Right now there is no Swedish law that can compel Mullvad to start logging [1].
But at the same time all cross-border traffic in and out of Sweden (so for anyone using Mullvad outside Sweden: virtually all traffic) is being monitored and (probably) logged, isn't it?
I highly doubt your VPN traffic will pass Sweden if you're outside Sweden and signing onto a Mullvad VPN server located outside of Sweden. The server list may be fetched from Sweden I guess? I haven't looked at the apps traffic to be honest, I have huge respect for the Mullvad team.
Sorry, I should have been more precise: For everyone outside Sweden using Mullvad's Swedish servers. My point was just that the fact that "[r]ight now there is no Swedish law that can compel Mullvad to start logging" does not mean that Swedish intelligence agencies cannot collect any data about you (= the Mullvad user using their Swedish servers).
Locating all their servers in IndependiPrivastan probably wouldn't stop intelligence agencies from collecting data. The NSA, for example, does not care even a tiny bit about the privacy of non-US citizens and sets up equipment around the world to gather and analyze internet traffic.
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