[AndroTux]

You know what? Adding another example from a "non oppressive dictatorship" country: Germany.

Every few years, Germany tries to push for [Vorratsdatenspeicherung](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorratsdatenspeicherung), which forces ISPs to store all connection data for later analysis by law enforcement. This is against the German constitution, so it gets overturned after a few years and the cycle starts again.

Point is, if you want your data to not be analyzed by law enforcement, and you live in Germany, you may want to use a VPN and connect to, for example, the Netherlands, where no such law exists.

Now, as we established, the VPN providers lie about it and maybe they don't have an exit point in the Netherlands, so they just let you exit in Germany again.

Same situation as before, but less extreme. Germany now will be able to put together metadata and find out what you were actually doing.

Are you going to jail for that? Maybe, if you did something highly illegal. You probably deserve it in this case.

But this isn't the point of discussions like these. It's always fine until something like Hitler happens and you happen to be jewish. You just can't know how the future will play out, and if your data is stored somewhere, it can be abused. VPNs promise to be a solution to this issue, and they apparently aren't. Which is a problem, even in a healthy democracy.

People like you pretending this isn't a problem, are a problem. It's the same argument as "I don't have anything to hide." Yes, maybe you don't have anything to hide today. Tomorrow? That might no longer be true. Take abortions in the US as a recent example.