Organization
Mullvad received an overall Lower Risk rating because it largely avoids embedding politically divisive initiatives into its corporate governance and instead focuses on business performance and merit-based practices. Its individual criteria scores, mostly lower or medium risk with some data unavailable, reflect limited evidence of activism-driven cancellations, discriminatory giving, or politically motivated corporate actions.
Mullvad is a commercial VPN service based in Sweden. Launched in March 2009, Mullvad operates using the WireGuard and OpenVPN protocols. It also supports ShadowSocks as a bridge protocol for censorship circumvention.