The bureaucracy exists for plebs like you and I, not for when the powers-that-be want to get things done.
I’m always wary of these providers selling jurisdictions (as Jonah points out above, Signal, for example, has no trouble being in the US even though it has state actors like the US in its threat model, but of course, Signal is an outlier; folks like Joshua Lund know what they’re doing). For instance, iVPN’s “legal strategy” is selling the fact that they’re based in Gibraltar (most UK laws apply anyway), but their Google Developer entity[1] is based in Switzerland. So, are they or are they not subject to Swiss laws like Proton VPN is?
Privatus GmbH, Baarerstrasse 82, 6300 Zug, Switzerland. ↩︎