The only way “The Laws of Australia” can prevail against “The laws of mathematics” is by corruption in the legislators, judiciary, and similar undemocratic behaviour. The laws of mathematics are very commendable but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.” “The laws of Australia prevail in Australia, I can assure you of that. And prior to that a belly laugh at Australian PM “Malcom Turnbull” who made a right arsehat of himself by saying, More recently we had a laugh at the Australian Government for passing other just as idiotic laws. It’s why we find the notion of making Pi a rational number by law so idiotic that in this day and age it’s funny. So any laws passed by humans are constrained by the natural laws. Even though our understanding of them is limited we know there are things we can not do. The ultimate laws that can not be cheated are the “natural laws” of the Universe.

Not fully true, that door swings both ways. So we are only as secure as our politics, not our technology. They can always make and enforce laws, even unreasonable ones, to defeat any technology. Sadly the latter seems more likely to be true to me. Now, either that is a lie, or this article and some of the comments on it are sensationalist nonsense. Additional details can be found in our transparency report. This obligation however does not extend to ProtonVPN (see VPN privacy policy here). If you are breaking Swiss law, ProtonMail can be legally compelled to log your IP address as part of a Swiss criminal investigation. The legal basis of this processing is our legitimate interest to protect our Services against nefarious activities. However, IP logs may be kept temporarily to combat abuse and fraud, and your IP address may be retained permanently if you are engaged in activities that breach our terms and conditions (spamming, DDoS attacks against our infrastructure, brute force attacks, etc). IP Logging: By default, we do not keep permanent IP logs in relation with your use of the Services. In fact it is perhaps worth just quoting the section of their privacy policy:

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