Last Updated on November 3, 2026 by pg@petergamma.org
“I have your picture,” a man told me, whom I suspect might be a welfare recipient living in the City of Zurich. “I have your picture,” he said to me before getting into a new, expensive car and driving away. Unfortunately, I don’t have a picture of this man.
I only have a picture of a man who looks similar to the man who said this to me, and it is the following picture.
A car that might also make it onto the front pages of the media, like the car pictured above, could perhaps be a car like the following.
It’s a car from Australia that was parked near where I live after I used the Mullvad VPN app from Sweden to hide my location.
Do legal insurance companies in Switzerland finance the transport of cars from Australia to Switzerland, if someone uses Mullvad VPN? Is it covered if you’re under Police surveillance for any reason? But I’m not a criminal. And yet, what I’m describing here happened to me.
Sweden is a highly developed and wealthy country. Its gross domestic product (GDP) in 2025 was approximately €592 billion, which corresponds to a per capita value of about €55,870. Adjusted for purchasing power parity, Sweden is thus among the richest nations in the world (ranked 19th).
Switzerland is also among the richest and wealthiest countries in the world. With a gross domestic product (GDP) per capita of around US$81,000 to US$118,000, the country is among the world’s top performers, surpassing significantly larger economies like Germany or the USA, but also Sweden. Is this the reason why cars are flown from Australia to the wealthy Switzerland, when using Swedish products like Mullvad VPN, simply because Switzerland is so rich? Cheap Swedish products like Mullvad VPN for €5 per month from Sweden? As cheap as IKEA furniture from Sweden? Those are cheap too, but popular. So popular that, according to Forbes magazine, Ingvar Kamprad, the Swedish entrepreneur and founder of the furniture company IKEA, became one of the richest people in the world.
A car that could make it also to the front pages of the media – a car that was flown from Australia to Switzerland, because a user was using Mullvad VPN located in Australia? If, for example, Mullvad VPN is repeatedly valued on YouTube as one of the best tools for protecting privacy, wouldn’t people be willing to have their legal insurance cover the costs of using such cars to demonstrate how ineffective tools like Mullvad VPN are, when you’re the subject of a Police investigation, even if you’re not a criminal?