Mullvad VPN

Clear Rating 4 / 5 · Clear — Cloud-hosted but privacy-by-design. Trusted operator.

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Mullvad VPN is an application and routing service designed with absolute privacy-by-design principles, requiring no email address or personal details to register. Although it routes traffic through a cloud infrastructure, the service is built to prevent user data logging or profi

Analysis

Mullvad VPN is an application and routing service designed with absolute privacy-by-design principles, requiring no email address or personal details to register. Although it routes traffic through a cloud infrastructure, the service is built to prevent user data logging or profiling. In April 2023, a Swedish police search of Mullvad's offices demonstrated that the company stores zero customer data, as the authorities were unable to retrieve any user logs.

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Rating IDark_intel_8ad65eb7

SubjectMullvad VPN

CategoryApp

VerdictSecure — clear

Beacon stateClear

Analyzed2026-06-07

AnalystHecTec Labs · Embassy reconnaissance (Gemini grounded search)

ApprovalManual review · YubiKey + steward (Citadel)

Data basisPublicly reported information only

Claim framingOpinion based on cited sources, not a statement of intent

Ingest originlocal_embassy

Citadel signaturesecp256k1_m4_sig_1dc933089d25e13d2480bc970cdeb427

MethodologySovereignware™ methodology v1.0

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