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Proton VPN
Headline
Same parent as Proton Mail, and the Proton Mail row in the Email Providers tab documents the case that matters: Swiss authorities compelled Proton to log and hand over an IP address and browser fingerprint for a…
Not independently verified. Verification status: Unverified - heuristic first draft. Publish state: draft unverified.
Same parent as Proton Mail, and the Proton Mail row in the Email Providers tab documents the case that matters: Swiss authorities compelled Proton to log and hand over an IP address and browser fingerprint for a specific account, Proton could not appeal, and it then rewrote its policy to state the limit. Separately, on Oct. 22, 2021, Switzerland's Federal Administrative Court ruled in Proton's favor that email providers are not telecommunications providers under Swiss law and so fall outside telco data-retention obligations (the ruling does not stop courts from issuing surveillance orders). For the VPN specifically, the honest reading is that a no-logs claim describes what a provider retains by default and cannot describe what a court may compel prospectively. Proton is among the better-behaved operators in this space and that limit still applies to it.
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- Evidence tierUnassigned
- Claims confirmed
- Last verified2026-08-04
Case status. Private litigation; no sources are on file yet, so no legal tier is assigned.
Primary source. None recorded — Unverified - heuristic first draft.
Terms
Arbitration
Not independently confirmed this pass — standard binding arbitration + class action waiver expected.
Data sharing
Same parent company (Proton AG, Switzerland) as Proton Mail, documented in the Email Providers tab of this tracker — shares the same Swiss jurisdiction/Federal Data Protection Act advantages and the same unverified claim about EU funding raised in that row. Proton VPN specifically maintains a published, independently-audited NO-LOGS policy — a genuine differentiator from some other VPN providers in this tracker (compare to NordVPN/ExpressVPN's ownership-transparency concerns, Gig Economy tab), though no VPN provider's no-logs claim can be verified with absolute certainty by an outside party.
Fees and billing
Not itemized this pass.
Contacts
Privacy contact. Not recorded.
Legal notice. Not verified this pass. If publicly traded: SEC Form 10-K cover page gives the official corporate address; the Secretary of State business-entity search in the state of incorporation gives the registered agent, which must accept service. If private: the state registered agent is usually the only reliable route.
Mailing address. Not recorded.
Evidence
No claims have been itemized for this row yet.
No sources are on file for this row yet.
Source vault
Link status: Candidate - not yet fetched
| Document | Last fetch | |
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| Privacy policy protonvpn.com/privacy-policy | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Terms of service protonvpn.com/terms | Not fetched yet | NO (HTML only) |
| Website No URL recorded | Not fetched yet | — |
| Primary source No URL recorded Verification: Unverified - heuristic first draft | Not fetched yet | — |
Enforcement
No enforcement actions are linked to this row.
State statute
No HQ state on file, so no state statute applies by headquarters.