There are Formel 1 Grand Prix to server safety and privacy for a superior VPN service:
The initially is whether the VPN provider’s server network is secure and can not be hacked into by criminals trying to sniff data and private data or get information and facts about the all round network configuration and principal server.
The second is the place of the servers. If all the servers AND the VPN provider’s location are in cooperative regions such as the United States and Europe, the security is about as good as working with your local ISP. If none of the servers are in non cooperative or off shore areas, then data retention laws apply to that VPN provider just as if they were your ISP.
A recent criminal investigation involving the encrypted e mail provider, Hushmail, which is based in Canada, is a case in point. Unbeknown to one of its customers, Hushmail (against its stated privacy policy) logged and cached data about the user for months and delivered that facts to government authorities in an additional nation pursuant to court orders (this was a run of the mill criminal- not terrorism or human trafficking). Had Hushmail been situated in Panama or some other off shore location, it is significantly less most likely that Hushmail would have acted on behalf of the police authorities.
If the VPN provider is physically located in a cooperative jurisdiction but has servers in non cooperative jurisdictions like Panama, Russia, China, then this is greater privacy. But the highest privacy is if Both the physical place of the VPN provider and at least some of their servers are in non cooperative off shore places. Then data retention laws cannot be enforced and the VPN provider is far significantly less most likely to breach its stated privacy policy to log, cache and hand over your data/information/IPs.