

It’s the same encryption standard adopted by the U.S. Private Internet Access uses AES 256-bitencryption algorithm to hide your data. PIA is privacy focused: The Russian Government has passed a new law that mandates that every provider must log all Russian internet traffic for up to a year Upon learning of the above, we immediately discontinued our Russian gateways and will no longer be doing business in the region.

Transparency reports and verified no logs can offset the disadvantages of being part of the 14 eyes. With this report, our users will have additional information on the type of requests we receive from governments and/or their agencies and how we handle these types of data requests."įurthermore, PIA posts regular transparency reports. Part of that trust is reporting what governmental data requests have been received by our legal team. Every year, we receive multiple requests from governments to disclose information about the activity of our users. "Private Internet Access embodies transparency as a key value toward building trust with our users. In fact, PIA has been subpoenaed several times by government agencies but no logs of users were found. PIA has a superb history of not logging any personally identifying logs. They do not collect or log any traffic or use of its VPN services, meaning you can have the piece of mind knowing there will be no trace of logs or personally identifying information. PIA does not log any information besides the standard account information that includes email address and payment type. The good news is their logging policy is user friendly. This is typically not a good sign because they vould be forced to hand over user information if they logged any of their consumers data.

PIA is based in the US part of the 5 Eyes, 9 Eyes, or 14 Eyes surveillance alliances.
