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The Mullvad founder gave millions to extremist far right party (mastodon.social)
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The IT company Mullvad’s founder Daniel Berntsson is behind a giant donation to the populist Örebro Party, which advocates “comprehensive re-immigration” from Sweden. “It’s sad that it’s needed,” he told Flamman.

~ https://www.flamman.se/techprofil-ger-miljoner-till-orebropartiet/

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[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I am in Italy, AirVPN is Italian, and every page of their site states that you cannot access their services if you're an Italian resident.

Any idea why?

[–] ErmahgherdDavid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Thank you I was genuinely not aware.

That said, and please tell me if I am wrong, it is this VPNs choice to conduct things in such a way that would make them liable to have any kind of problem with the authorities since the norm asks them to report if "the providers become aware" which implies logging and analysis.

I am not sure there is any law asking them to do that, although there may well be.

[–] cy888@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Could it be that only Italians are protected by Italian privacy laws?

Any Italian who subscribes is doing so against the vpn's terms. If all data is spied upon then any Italian privacy breaches are not the fault of the vendor.

[–] biofaust@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

No, that is not the case as GDPR applies anywhere.