VPN provider 'Avoid all US and UK based services' ??

[jolly3434]

'Avoid all US and UK based services'

can someone explain to me does it mean not to buy or get a 'vpn provider' from below countrys ? and does it mean not to use a server to connect from those countrys as well ? or is it ok to still use UK am i protected?
thankyou if you can help
i got NordVPN in the end easy to install on computer and doing a promotion 2 years for the price of 1
also any help to setup kodi with NordVPN much appreciated, thanks


Why is it not recommended to choose a US based service?
Global Mass Surveillance - The Fourteen Eyes

The UKUSA Agreement is an agreement between the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand to cooperatively collect, analyze, and share intelligence. Members of this group, known as the Five Eyes, focus on gathering and analyzing intelligence from different parts of the world. While Five Eyes countries have agreed to not spy on each other as adversaries, leaks by Snowden have revealed that some Five Eyes members monitor each other’s citizens and share intelligence to avoid breaking domestic laws that prohibit them from spying on their own citizens. The Five Eyes alliance also cooperates with groups of third party countries to share intelligence (forming the Nine Eyes and Fourteen Eyes), however Five Eyes and third party countries can and do spy on each other.
Five Eyes
1. Australia
2. Canada
3. New Zealand
4. United Kingdom
5. United States of America
Nine Eyes
6. Denmark
7. France
8. Netherlands
9. Norway
Fourteen Eyes
10. Belgium
11. Germany
12. Italy
13. Spain
14. Sweden

 

[slyuser]

interesting i have heard something similar

 

[Bertonumber1]

The GCHQ, NSA and security companies around the world have backdoor into everything anyway m8. Apparently they love vpns because it keeps all the traffic in one place so it's easier for them to tie activity to the user. If they want to access your Internet they will regardless of what vpn or server you're using. Look at the technology we have at our disposal, now imagine what they have and don't want us knowing about.
Nord was hacked roughly a year ago and some 28,000 accounts compromised and posted to sites such as paste bin. That is Nordvpn who claim to be titanium and impenetrable. The truth is no vpn is 100% secure. There was a recent case whereby a very well known vpn passed details onto piracy firms in a lawsuit against a torrent website. This tells us that with a bit of pressure from the authorities these vpn firms will crumble and hand over your public ip anyhow, regardless of how much they try and sell the "no logs" policy. IMO vpns are finished m8.

You are bang on with regard to countries and spying. It is written in law that it is illegal for the powers that be to spy on its citizens. However they get round this by having other countries spy on domestic targets.
For example persons of interest in UK will be watched by NSA and persons in America will be monitored by GCHQ. This provides the loophole although since the 911 attacks the terrorism act has drove a plough through all these laws.
Nowadays they just say they want to look into something/someone under the prevention of terrorism/organised crime and this enables them carte blanche (all off the record of course) and its only going to get worse as more and more rights are taken away. Hitler done the same to the Jews with the reichstag fire laws. It is all about surveillance on a massive scale and holding onto that power.