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Re:Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his I... by shadowgovt on Sunday September 05, 2021 @06:19PM (#28428333)
A corporation is a power centralization, and government authority can lean on power centralization.

In general, regardless of what their TOS say, never believe that a corporation can't be compelled by the law to do anything they could physically do. CEOs can be jailed; when's the last time we heard of one actually going to jail over user privacy?

Re:Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his I... by bigiain on Sunday September 05, 2021 @08:13PM (#28429011)
> CEOs can be jailed; when's the last time we heard of one actually going to jail over user privacy?

Ladar Levison from Lavabit came close. But even he admits that was because the FBI wanted to subvert every single Lavabit user's account (attempting vast overreach on the brazen assumption that "we are after Snowden" was going to pull the wool over everybody's eyes). Levison admits though, to having "responded to" at least two dozen subpoenas and complied with at least one warrant before.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit#Suspension_and_gag_ord...

Re:Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his I... by msh on Monday September 06, 2021 @03:32AM (#28431347)
The CEO of the phone company qwest claims that the insider trading charges he got prison for was only brought to court because he refused to allow the installation of NSA surveillance equipment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

Re:Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his I... by pessimizer on Sunday September 05, 2021 @06:50PM (#28428519)
The point being made agrees with you, and is just saying that since protonmail can't help but obey sometimes, they should make the effort to educate their customers about that fact and whatever their customers can personally do to mitigate the risks of that fact.
Re:Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his I... by andrepd on Sunday September 05, 2021 @11:29PM (#28429941)
> CEOs can be jailed; when's the last time we heard of one actually going to jail, period.