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Re:Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his I... by jraby3 on Monday September 06, 2021 @04:04AM (#28431523)
I was COO of a vpn company for several years. It’s almost impossible not to keep any ip info. We had issues with fraud and one of the best ways to prevent or limit it was to track IP address and save it for several months.

I agree PM should be more forthright in their messaging but realistically I don’t believe any company that takes payments and doesn’t track any info at all.

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Re:Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his I... by xvector on Monday September 06, 2021 @04:42AM (#28431693)
Did your company market itself as a no-logs VPN company?
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Re:Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his I... by jraby3 on Monday September 06, 2021 @05:59AM (#28432098)
I don’t remember the actual marketing message as it was about 7 years ago, but I know in the TOS it was carefully written to include that it had to collect some ip info to prevent fraud.
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