# Cheaper VPN service recommendations?

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/cheaper-vpn-service-recommendations/20844
**Category:** Questions
**Created:** 2024-09-12T21:36:08Z
**Posts:** 81
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## Post 70 by @ignoramous — 2024-12-26T12:47:35Z

> [@moonwriting](#):
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> [Mullvad](https://mullvad.net/en/help/swedish-legislation), this doesn’t apply to them

(_emphasis all mine_)

Of course, they say that in the intro. Read the fine print:

> For users (of computers and other electronic devices), the new Covert Surveillance of Data Act grants law enforcement agencies the authority, upon a special permit (in each specific case) from a competent Swedish court, to `secretly install software or hardware on suspect users' devices or devices which the suspect in special cases have or will most likely contact`. This implies that law enforcement agencies may access a suspect user’s information before it is encrypted by VPN-services …

Pretty much states that the FRA can pwn their servers if they deem the suspect is _most likely to contact_ it.

They also wash their hands off of their own assertions.

> Note that `the summary is not exhaustive` and its `sole purpose is to provide you, as a user, with a certain overall, general understanding` of the new law and an understanding of why Mullvad VPN is not subject to the new law. The `summary is not intended to constitute, and must not be used as, professional legal advice` in any respect. All use of the content is at the `user's own risk`.

In other words, do your own research.

> [@anon80779245](#):
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> article you linked states

Yeah, I know. You expect them to say otherwise? (: My point is, the law grants FRA an astonishingly wide-berth.

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