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Fodt
After researching the EU data retention situation, here's what I found.
Switzerland is looking less reliable. ProtonMail handed over that activist's IP in 2021, and they've been signing EU cooperatio...
Russia/Kazakhstan as fallback
Sorry, but it sounds like a joke. As a Russian citizen I can say that Russian authorities has too many powers in collecting personal data and they are using it for repressions, and I'm not even talking about censorship.
Talking about Kazakhstan, there are much more freedom(comparing to Russia), but it still not the best jurisdiction for VPN.
Russia can escape from EU rules... if servers are there, only Russia can asking data of the European users (but it has no interests to block what users surf within EU websites), but not the EU itself...