British Virgin Islands, press rank #18 · ~$2,450/mo

Can you live unwatched in Road Town (Tortola)?

Surveillance, facial recognition and crypto rules read here for the city itself, not the national average.

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The privacy scorecard

The six marked ° below are read for Road Town (Tortola) itself. The rest are set by British Virgin Islands’s national law, the same across every city in the country.

State surveillance °4/5
Facial recognition °5/5
No national ID2/5
Data-protection law3/5
Encryption4/5
VPN freedom5/5
Democracy4/5
Free expression5/5
Cash still works4/5
Financial privacy3/5
Crypto freedom °3/5
Easy to stay °2/5
Off-grid living °3/5
press rank #18 (British Virgin Islands) ~$2,450/mo, this city safety 4/5 geopolitical stability 5/5

Childhood vaccines: compulsory by law

Childhood vaccination is required by national law here. We have the rule and the penalty, not the official count of how many vaccines the law covers.

If you skip them: Nothing in practice. The law says you must, and names no penalty.

Exemptions: The law names none.

Source: Marks and Vanderslott (Oxford), 149-country survey, 2019

Legal & financial exposure

Facts about the law, not a privacy score: whether each one helps or hurts depends on what you are trying to do.

Reports your account balances abroad (CRS)

No extradition treaty with the US

Company ownership is not public

No public register: this is the core of the British Virgin Islands’ offshore company business.

4 of 7 signals are unverified for this country: not shown, rather than guessed.

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City-level figures where marked °, national law otherwise. Estimates for orientation, not legal advice. Surveillance law changes fast: verify anything you would act on.