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Can a VPN read my traffic to know what I'm doing? (lemmy.autism.place)

submitted 1 month ago by ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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https://torrentfreak.com/italy-approves-piracy-shield-vpn-dns-proposal-risk-of-prison-for-isps-intact-241001/

As title. Italy is decided to pass a law that basically creates a chinese-type firewall in the country. The question is simple: even if I'm not doing anything illegal, my VPN provider will have to know what am I doing to report it in case it's illegal, or face jail.

So how could my traffic remain private in this scenario?

Can a VPN provider with no logs policy be held accountable of anything? Can it actually know what I'm doing?

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[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Doesn't that just hide the specific content? They still know where the content is coming from?

And not everything done online, especially things that can get you in trouble with authorities (like torrenting copyrighted material) can be done through https.

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

Basically everything online can be done encrypted. bittorrent has had support for encryption for years. There are other challenges like hiding from DPI and the thing that you broadcast your torrent IP but the content can be securely emcrypted.