This! People quite frequently are paranoid as shit about US servers, I have even seen people who wanted to prevent Tor from using any US nodes. They don't realize that the US currently has no laws regarding the mandatory retention of logs by proxy services, whereas many countries in the EU require logs to be kept for six months to two years. On the other hand, in the US the feds can legally passively monitor whatever proxy they want, without alerting the proxy operator and without a warrant. But at least the people providing the service are not required to keep logs. Germany is one of the best countries actually, their 'supreme court' (whatever it is called there) has determined that it is strictly against their 'constitution' (I imagine it is called that?) for the government to mandate the retention of logs. For a brief period of time they were following the EU directive that mandated such logging, but then it was deemed to be illegal under German law and they mandated that all data logged under the original mandate be destroyed. As far as HMA goes it seems rather pointless to use their services imo, they have admitted publicly that they keep logs (not just that they will log if ordered to) and will cooperate with LE.