Editor’s note: This page, which was originally published on June 18, 2017, is updated whenever there is a notable new legal request.
Proton VPN is based in Switzerland, so we will only comply with requests that have been approved by the Swiss court system. We are not legally bound to honor foreign requests without such approval, and in fact we are legally prohibited from doing so by Section 271 of the Swiss Criminal Code.
Switzerland has strong constitutional privacy protections. Under Swiss law, Proton VPN is not obligated to save connection logs, and we adhere to a strict no-logs VPN policy that has been validated by multiple no-logs audits. Because we do not collect or store any user activity information, we cannot provide it, even when we receive a legally binding Swiss court order.
Since Proton VPN was launched in 2017, we have received 458 legally binding orders approved by the Swiss authorities. In every one of these cases, the authorities wanted us to help identify who was connected to a specific Proton VPN server at a specific time.
In every case, we were unable to provide the requested identifying information because Proton VPN does not keep the logs that would make such identification possible. So, all such requests were denied.
A warrant canary is not meaningful in Switzerland, because Swiss law requires that the target of a surveillance or data request eventually be notified, so they have the opportunity to contest the data request.
2026
(Through June)
- Total orders: 47
- Denied orders: 47
2025
- Total orders: 59
- Denied orders: 59
2024
- Total orders: 53
- Denied orders: 53
2023
- Total orders: 60
- Denied orders : 60
2022
- Total orders: 80
- Denied orders 80
2021
- Total orders: 121
- Denied orders: 121
2020
- Total orders: 37
- Denied orders: 37
2019
- Total orders: 1
- Denied orders: 1
