Every VPN says "no logs" on its homepage. Almost none of them prove it. Here are four ways to actually verify the claim instead of taking it on faith.
- Independent audit reports - ExpressVPN and NordVPN have both published third-party audits of their no-logs infrastructure (PwC and Deloitte respectively). Read the actual report, not just the press release summarizing it.
- Court and seizure records - a handful of VPN providers have had servers physically seized by law enforcement and nothing useful came out of them, because the servers genuinely held no logs. That is a stronger proof than any marketing page.
- Jurisdiction and ownership - where a VPN is legally based, and who owns it, changes what a government can compel it to hand over. A privacy policy is only as good as the law behind it.
- VPN Adviser's provider comparisons - lines up logging policy, audit history, jurisdiction, and server ownership side by side across major providers, so you are not re-reading ten separate privacy policies to find the one detail that matters.
A VPN that will not say which auditor checked its claims, or when, has not actually proven anything yet.
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