Notices by Mullvad VPN (mullvadnet@mastodon.online)

Remaining PayPal subscriptions are being canceled in order to store less data about our customers.

https://mullvad.net/blog/remaining-paypal-subscriptions-are-being-canceled

As a reminder, Mullvad does not have any affiliate programs.

There is currently a scam going around that involes "a promotional offer" which includes a pdf and zip archive containing a malicious .exe file.

Further information about advertising, affiliates and reviews can be found here:

https://mullvad.net/help/policy-reviews-advertising-and-affiliates

The abuse vector of port forwarding has caught up with us, and today we announce the discontinuation of support for port forwarding.

Learn more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/2023/5/29/removing-the-support-for-forwarded-ports/

On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant.

They left without taking anything and without any customer information.

https://mullvad.net/blog/2023/4/20/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-search-warrant-customer-data-not-compromised/

It’s now 10 years since Edward Snowden revealed the US system of mass surveillance, with the ability to collect every single phone call, text message and email.

Now the EU commission wants to do the same.

In plain sight.

Not the development we were hoping for.

Stop #chatcontrol

Now is the time for resistance. To fight for human rights.

To free the internet from mass surveillance. Now is the time to stop #chatcontrol

We urge all politicians of the EU to take a democratic decision.

Read the full story at https://mullvad.net/chatcontrol

The EU Commission wants to monitor all the citizens of the European union.

The law proposal is called #chatcontrol – and now is the time to stop it

We took the debate to the streets of Sweden, during the country’s EU-presidency.

Take a look at https://mullvad.net/chatcontrol/campaign

The European Commission is currently in the process of enacting a law called Chat control. If the law goes into effect, it will mean that all EU citizens’ communications will be monitored and listened to.

https://mullvad.net/blog/2023/2/2/stop-the-proposal-on-mass-surveillance-of-the-eu/

The proposed EU law Chat Control will not only create a centralized mass surveillance system and violate people's privacy. It will also ban open source operating systems as an unintended consequence.

If and when this law goes into effect it would make illegal the open source software services underpinning the majority of services and infrastructure on the internet.

Learn more here: https://mullvad.net/blog/2023/2/1/eu-chat-control-law-will-ban-open-source-operating-systems/