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Are you allowed to do that in US? I see the company is located in the USA, can companies disable logging just like that? (Asking because I really don't know)

• immibis 10mo ago
  In most countries the law doesn't say you have to log everything about your users, but it does say that if you log it and the police ask for it then you have to give the data to them.
  • singpolyma3 10mo ago
    I think you mean if a court asks for it. And they have to ask for something you actually have
    • immibis 10mo ago
      That's why companies that actually care about privacy (I think there are only two - Mullvad and Signal?) make a point of not ever capturing the data to begin with, and deleting what they do capture as soon as possible.
      • singpolyma3 10mo ago
        Interesting that you mention those two as I'd not trust either with private data. They engage in too much magical thinking in their marketing for my liking...
        • reassess_blind 10mo ago
          Which privacy-oriented companies do you prefer?
        • yencabulator 10mo ago
          Magical thinking, like Mullvad burning large amounts of engineering effort to make sure their infrastructure never stores anything worth a subpoena. Their VPN servers don't have hard drives. Mullvad is one of the rare examples of doing more than marketing. https://mullvad.net/en/blog/we-have-successfully-completed-our-migration-to-ram-only-vpn-infrastructure https://mullvad.net/en/blog/we-have-successfully-completed-o...
• SoftTalker 10mo ago
  I don't know either, but I would guess there are no laws that says internet service operators must log anything. But, banks and financial services now must obey "know your customer" laws so it's not beyond imagination that similar laws could be applied to websites and ISPs operating in a particular country.
• drnick1 10mo ago
  What is truly absurd is that most websites default to logging activities. It's as if they actively conspired against their users.