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The EU member states are still sovereign, though. This French court ruling doesn't really affect the prospects of certain kinds of privacy in Germany. I think the parent might have been referring to the fact they didn't raise a no-log argument, thus implying they do log. But I don't think that makes much sense either.

The main reason for Protonmail's existence is that they are not hosted in the USA.

> Ironically, the safest place to host a private VPN service may actually be USA given the way privacy-related things in the EU are going.

Why, because American companies are never forced to do things because of copyright and/or law enforcement?

Switzerland has lax laws on piracy for personal use so I'm quite surprised by this.