The Best No-Logs VPNs

• Test Conducted: Research the VPN’s company history and record whether there have been any server seizures, hacks, leaks, or legal data requests.
• Why It’s Important: It’s the most reliable way to tell whether a VPN is truthful in its logging policy, and the security of its servers and apps.
• Optimal Result: Examples where the VPN has been unable to provide data to third parties due to its no-logs policy.

• Test Conducted: Analyzed the privacy policies of each VPN to identify what data points are being stored, for how long, and whether they’re aggregated or anonymized.
• Why It’s Important: Privacy policies reveal whether a VPN actually adheres to its no-logs claim or secretly collects identifying user data.
• Optimal Result: The VPN stores no identifying activity or connection logs and protects user privacy.

• Test Conducted: Looked into whether a VPN uses RAM-only (diskless) servers and, if so, how much of the network they make up. We also researched the size and reach of the network itself.
• Why It’s Important: Diskless servers don’t store data persistently, meaning if they are unplugged from the power source, all data on the server is permanently deleted. This makes it almost impossible for law enforcement to seize information like they can with physical servers.
• Optimal Result: A large and fully diskless VPN server network that covers most countries in the world.
  

• Test Conducted: Researched VPNs to find out whether any logging policy audits by third parties like Cure53 or Deloitte have been conducted and analyze them thoroughly.
• Why It’s Important: Audits from external parties can prove whether a VPN is actually sticking to its logging policy.
• Optimal Result: The VPN conducts yearly audits to prove it isn’t logging activity or connection logs over time.

• Test Conducted: Researched each VPN’s jurisdiction and data privacy laws of each region.
• Why It’s Important: Where a VPN is incorporated will affect its legal obligation to log and store data, or even share it with governmental authorities.
• Optimal Result: A privacy-friendly jurisdiction like the British Virgin Islands or a watertight no-logs policy that’s been independently audited and verified in a real-world case.

The US is the founding member of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, and its surveillance reach is enormous.

Under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), agencies can collect communications without a warrant. The program’s repeated reauthorization fights show no sign of it going away.

Then there’s the commercial side. Since Congress repealed the FCC’s broadband privacy rules in 2017, your ISP can legally collect and sell your browsing history to advertisers and data brokers.

The infrastructure itself isn’t safe, either. The Salt Typhoon breach, described in Congress as the worst telecoms hack in US history, saw state-linked hackers burrow into US carrier networks.

They accessed the systems built for lawful wiretaps, along with the call and text metadata of more than a million people.

Because of this breach, in June 2025 the FCC actually rolled back the telecom cybersecurity rules it had introduced.

In essence, whatever your ISP can see, someone else can eventually see too.

The UK is, in my view, one of the most aggressively surveilled democracies on Earth.

The Investigatory Powers Act 2016, nicknamed the Snoopers’ Charter, requires ISPs to retain Internet Connection Records for up to 12 months.

That logs every service and website you connect to, and dozens of public bodies can access that data.

The 2024 amendments went further, allowing the government to effectively veto security improvements to the tech products you use.

Ask Apple. Using a secret Technical Capability Notice under the same act, the Home Office pressured the company to weaken its end-to-end encrypted iCloud backups.

Rather than build a backdoor, Apple pulled its Advanced Data Protection feature for UK users entirely.

Australia’s Assistance and Access Act 2018 lets authorities compel companies to help bypass encryption. That sits on top of a mandatory two-year metadata-retention regime.

India’s 2022 CERT-In directive ordered VPN providers to log user data for five years.

Rather than comply, the major names (including ExpressVPN, NordVPN, Surfshark, and Proton VPN) pulled their physical servers out of the country.

Zoom out and you get the Five, Nine, and 14 Eyes alliances: overlapping intelligence-sharing pacts that let member states pool what they collect.

It’s why so many privacy-first VPNs deliberately base themselves in Switzerland, Panama, or the British Virgin Islands instead.