The VPN I used is based in a country where the US can't come and subpoena / sue people, which is the main protection I can think of. Worst that can happen is th

The VPN I used is based in a country where the US can't come and subpoena / sue people, which is the main protection I can think of. Worst that can happen is their servers being shutdown in countries that can, and it happens on a daily basis. Using a US-based VPN seems like a bad idea either way. Additionally, why would a VPN keep logs at all? With no traces, they have "plausible deniability" that some of their users are doing horrible, horrible things online. This is the main reason I trust my VPN provider to not have logs. IIRC, the only thing they look for is email spam (which is fairly easy to detect with very minimal / time restricted logging), as it spoils their IP addresses too quickly.