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No-Logs VPN
A VPN that doesn't record connection details that could tie a session back to a specific user.
A no-logs VPN does not retain: connection timestamps tied to your account, source IP addresses (or hashes), destination domains or DNS lookups, bandwidth per session, or DNS queries. Aggregate health metrics — total active connections, server load — are usually fine because they cannot be tied to a specific user.
The phrase "no-logs" appears on every VPN landing page in 2026 and means almost nothing on its own. Three things turn the claim into evidence: an independent audit (PwC, Securitum, Cure53 are the credible names in this space), a published transparency report, and a track record of legal pressure that produced no logs. Mullvad and Proton VPN have all three. Most consumer VPNs have zero.