Toronto, Canada, April 28, 2025 / Cybernewswire / – Windscriber, a VPN confidentiality service on a global scale, announced today that its founder, Yegor Sak, was fully acquitted by a court of Athens, in Greece, following a two -year legal battle in which Sak was personally charged with an alleged user of an unknown user service.
The case was centered on a server belonging to Windscriber in Finland which would have been used to break a system in Greece. The Greek authorities, in cooperation with Interpol, have drawn the IP address to the Windscribe infrastructure and, unlike standard international procedures, carried out criminal procedures against SAK itself, rather than pursuing information through standard corporate channels.
“It was not only for me,” said Sak. “It was a question of drawing a legal line last around the role of privacy infrastructure providers. As we do not journey the activity of users, we cannot give what we have not.”
The accusations against Sak were officially rejected on April 11, 2025. The court did not find sufficient evidence to involve Sak or Windscribe in any reprehensible act.
A case with global ramifications
The legal procedure took place in the context of the growing pressure on private life technology in the world. While most of the law enforcement organizations emit quotes to appear to VPN suppliers when criminal activity is suspected, Windscriber regularly responds that it is unable to comply because of its strict non -logging policy – a response that is almost always accepted without climbing.
This case, however, has become strongly deviated from this standard. After assigning the supplier of data centers in Finland, which gave the name of the account holder – SAK – The Greek authorities immediately started the criminal procedure.
No information has been requested from Windscriber, and the first time the company heard of the issue was after receipt of the legal quote.
“This establishes a precedent prerequisite for anyone who has servers that could be used by others,” said Sak. “If he is confirmed, he could have criminalized ownership of infrastructure for the actions taken by anonymous users.”
Why Windscribe will not keep newspapers
Windscribe believes that the Internet should be free from censorship, harvest of personal data, targeted advertising and geographic restrictions. Membership of this philosophy is taken very seriously – the company does not pay any advertising or promoted content; It is a key principle of sound
SAK stressed that Windscribe remains attached to user confidentiality and operational transparency.
“Some say that VPN should be prohibited because a few people abuse them,” said Sak. “According to this logic, we must also prohibit hammers and cars.”
The case highlighted a central contestation for confidentiality providers: helping judicial inquiries requires the collection of user newspapers – a step which fundamentally compromises the trust and the usefulness of a confidentiality service. Once stored, these newspapers can be forced by the courts in courts where the speech itself is criminalized.
“Today is hacking. Tomorrow, it could be badly talked about the beard of a dictator,” said Sak. “We prefer to fight in court that betraying our users.”
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