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Coverage149countries
Paying monthly$14.99monthly
Paying yearly$139.08yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devices10at once
17 out of 100Security
70 out of 100Usability
Servers in country
Providers with exit locations in Sierra Leone: a server here gives you an address in the country. The register’s table records no mandate for VPN operators here; the briefing below sets out what the law asks of providers.
Only a few providers publish an exit here.
Providers with exit locations in a country — a fact about a network, kept deliberately apart from where the company is registered. Only providers whose country list has a source appear: a provider that publishes nothing simply does not show up, which is a criterion already in the data rather than an editorial one.
Sierra Leone’s Cyber Security and Crime Act 2021 sets no standing retention period: it lets an officer order data preserved for up to 30 days and reserves real-time collection of traffic and content data for orders of a High Court judge.
The Cyber Security and Crime Act 2021 (Act No. 7) lets an enforcement officer give written notice requiring a person in control of a computer system to preserve specified data for up to 30 days; a High Court judge may extend it (s. 13). A High Court judge may also order a person holding specified data, or a service provider holding subscriber information for services offered in Sierra Leone, to produce it (s. 12).
A High Court judge may order a service provider to collect traffic data in real time for up to 30 days, extendable by 30 (s. 14), and, for a felonious offence, to collect or assist in collecting content data (s. 15). Disobeying a traffic-data order without reasonable excuse carries a fine of Le 100,000,000 to Le 5,000,000,000.
Under s. 53 anyone operating a computer system or network must immediately report an intrusion or disruption likely to hinder another system to the National Computer Security Incidence Response Team. The Act defines a service provider widely, as any entity giving users the means to communicate by computer system and any entity that processes or stores data for it or its users. Whether a VPN operator is one is not established.
The Act restricts content through criminal offences and contains no website-blocking or filtering order. Section 52 punishes racist and xenophobic material distributed to the public through a computer system, threats or public insults on grounds such as race, descent, ethnic origin, gender, religion or disability, and denial or justification of genocide, with a fine of Le 50,000,000 to Le 100,000,000 or one to three years.
Section 50 provides for the registration of cyber cafes.
Sending a message that is grossly offensive, pornographic, indecent, obscene or menacing, or that the sender knows to be false and sends to cause danger, insult, enmity, hatred or needless anxiety, is an offence carrying Le 30,000,000 to Le 50,000,000 or two to five years (s. 44(2)). Cyber stalking and bullying sit in the same section. The Act defines “false news” as deliberately spread misinformation intended to mislead for gain.
Identification of a sender runs through the judge’s orders of ss. 14 and 15 and the preservation notice of s. 13.
Section 22 of the Constitution protects a person’s correspondence, telephone conversations and electronic communications from interference without consent, and allows laws reasonably required for defence, public safety, public order or the protection of others’ rights, unless shown not to be reasonably justifiable in a democratic society. The order of the rows is the security score, and a server’s location is not a recommendation.
Sierra Leone
Only a provider that publishes a country list appears here at all — 41 of the 77 on file. The other 27 are not missing research: they publish no list, and U02_server_countries is unknown for them rather than filled from the number their marketing claims.
A provider that says “100+ countries” and enumerates none gets no page on any of them, and the count printed on its own record is the length of the list, never the claim. With 41 providers behind 180 countries, the long tail of these pages carries one or two rows.
More countries
Coverage149countries
Paying monthly$14.99monthly
Paying yearly$139.08yearly total
Free tierNopaid plans only
Devices10at once
Security
Usability
What moved
Every row is the record’s own history[], filtered to U02_server_countries and P04_mandate_response; the whole log holds every field.
29 Aug 20261 changes
NordVPNResponse to a national logging mandateP04_mandate_response
not on the record changed to withdrew_physical
