Re:Climate activist arrested after ProtonMail provided his I...
by bigiain on Sunday September 05, 2021 @08:13PM
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> 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.
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...