(P)2P or not (P)2P – That Is The Question, Does The Government Monitor Or Censor, Find It Here

We’ve put together this list of countries and their status on censoring and regulating the internet. We’ve included a column that describes our understanding of whether or not the government is actively monitoring their citizens, (or any other persons’) activities on the internet. (It must be understood that this column is only an opined conclusion that we have come to in the course of our research.) This list is by no means complete, but the list is completely up-to-date, and we have been careful to include some of the smaller countries that we have been asked about the most often. 

 

Logging & Censorship Listed By Country

Country	Retention Laws	Open Censorship	Censoring Suspected	Monitoring (Openly, or suspected.)
Afghanistan	Heavily regulated			Highly suspected
Argentina	None
Armenia		Heavily Censored
Austrailia	None - see other columns	Very strict censoring laws		Monitoring suspected
Austria	Heavily regulated
Bahrain		Heavily Censored
Belarus		Heavily Censored
Belgium	None	Strict laws in place.		Mostly P2P
Brazil	None
Bulgaria	None
Burma		Heavily Censored
Canada	None, but anti-piracy is threatening privacy laws			Mostly P2P
China	Strictly enforced complete data retention.	Heavily Censored
Cuba		Heavily Censored
Cyprus	Had a law, declared it unconstitutional
Czech Republic	Had a law, declared it unconstitutional
Denmark	Strict retention laws
Egypt	None - but privacy laws are in question			Suspected
Estonia	Strict retention laws
Ethiopia		Heavily Censored
Finland	Strict retention laws
France	Data retention laws don't apply to VPNs			Suspected
Germany	Had a law, declared it unconstitutional	Server Raids Are Common		Openly
Greece	Strict retention laws
Hong Kong	None
Hungary	Strict retention laws
Iceland	None - Great Privacy Laws
India	Strict retention laws	Heavily Censored
Indonesia		Heavily Censored
Iran	Strictly regulated	Heavily Censored		Open monitoring
Iraq		Heavily Censored		Supspected
Ireland	Strict regulation
Israel	None			Highly Suspected
Italy	Data retention doesn't apply to VPNs		Regulation is strict.
Japan	None
Kuwait		Censored
Latvia	Strict Regulation
Lichtenstein	Strict Regulation
Lithuania	Strict Regulation
Luxembourg	Data retention laws don't apply to VPNs
Malaysia	None		Strict Regulation with lots of server raids	Suspected
Malta	Strict Regulation
Mexico	None	Government corruption masks censorship issues		Suspected
Morroco		Censored
N. Korea		Heavily censored
Netherlands	Data retention laws don't apply to VPNs
New Zealand	None			Suspected
Norway	Strict Regulation
Oman		Openly censored
Pakistan		Openly censored
Palestinian Treeitories		Heavily censored
Panama	None
Poland	Strict Regulation
Portugal	Strict Regulation
Qatar		Heavily censored
Romania	Had a law, declared it unconstitutional
Russia	None	Some issues		Highly Suspected
S.Korea	None	Some issues		Suspected
Saudi Arabia		Censored
Serbia	Data retention laws don't apply to VPNs
Singapore	Minimum retention laws		Strict regulation and open censoring
Slovekia	Strict Regulation
Slovenia	Strict Regulation
Spaiin	Strict Regulation
Sudan		Heavily censored
Sweden	Data retention laws don't apply to VPNs
Switzerland	Strict Regulation
Syria		Heavily censored
Taiwan	None - Great Privacy Laws
Thailand	Strict Regulation	Censored
Tunesia		Heavily censored
Turkey	Heavily regulated	Heavily censored
Turkmenestan		Heavily censored
Ukraine	None
United Arab Emirates		Heavily censored
United Kingdom	Heavily regulated
United States	None		Highly suspected, not proved	Proved the government attempts to monitor the ENTIRE internet.
Uzbekestan		Heavily censored
Vietnam		Heavily censored
Yemen		Heavily censored

This table describes each countries attitude toward your internet privacy. It is by no means complete, but it is kept up to date