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Would internet services be subject to, let's say Swiss privacy laws, if you were connected to a Swiss server from your VPN? And if they do, would it make that much of a difference that it's worth the occasional hassle of having to change the language and region?

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[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

afaik (and I'm no lawyer nor have a legal background) companies operating/hosting physical servers somewhere are subject to local laws and regulations, so yes.

In my view that's why a "no logging" policy followed by a third party auditing matters, but in the end the local regulations can still force companies to keep certain records to be allowed to operate there. Because of this I wouldn't pick countries with a poor track of freedom of speech or high censorship as exit if available.

[–] Rose@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

PIA removed their Russian servers for this very reason.