> VPN companies operate at an international level. The cops from some countries cannot be trusted. Cops in all countries make mistakes. A few of them our there are corrupt. And often times the person claiming to be a cop is either well outside their authority, or just lying about being a cop. I tell my client's to not even respond to communications from any sort of law enforcement. Pass it to your lawyers. Let them first verify who and what authority is making the request. Do not leave such determinations to engineers and support staff.
Totally agree with everything here.
All Law Enforcement is corrupt. The only unknown is the level of corruption. As a service provider in any country, we have no idea whether we will be dealing with a good cop or a bad cop, and the safest assumption to make is that they are all bad cops. Don't let the good cop set a precedent for interaction that the bad cop can abuse.
The system will work to abuse your trust. If the first warrant tou get is to help catch a pedophile who has been kidnapping children, and you sgree to provide logs for that, the Government will be upset when you don't comply with the next warrant which is a wife beating cop trying to track down his estranged wife who is due to appear in court tomorrow.
You have shown that you have the required data, the purpose of the warrant doesn't have any impact on the legal requirement to comply.
I guess that depends on which law enforcement you are talking about. An FBI agent going after someone distributing child pornography is a rather sympathetic police action. What about a Chinese officer going after someone for "treason"? What about a Russian cop looking for someone who tweeted pics taken at a protest rally? Or what about a Canadian cop asking questions about a teenager in Sweden, someone well outside Canadian jurisdiction? Or what about the FBI agent asking for some celeb's home address? Rather than pick sides, the best answer is to just not collect the data in the first place.
VPN companies operate at an international level. The cops from some countries cannot be trusted. Cops in all countries make mistakes. A few of them our there are corrupt. And often times the person claiming to be a cop is either well outside their authority, or just lying about being a cop. I tell my client's to not even respond to communications from any sort of law enforcement or intelligence agency. Pass it to your lawyers. Let them first verify who and what authority is making the request. Do not leave such determinations to engineers and support staff.