So they announce he joins the day after they announced that they log everyone’s IP address and give them to authorities?

You cannot negotiate and execute a deal with TimBL in one day. Anyone like that will see your desperate urgency as a major red flag and guys like him, their personal reputation is their only asset (W3C is irrelevant)

It’s just on the rollout plan. When you want to ensure something is done, you set it in the prerequisites, and joining is only confirmed after the prereqs are fulfilled.

They apparently log the IP addresses for customers where they receive a warrant from the local authorities. Not everyone’s IP and they don’t just give them away.

But on the positive side, one does not have to use PM. There’s plenty of encrypted e-mail providers out there that will not store any info whatsoever on their customers and should the police ever dare question them they’d rather die shooting than give them anything anyway.

Is there? Could you give some examples of email providers that wouldn't comply with a legal request?

Protonmail, from what I understand, does contest the requests it receives, but some they have to follow. My impression is that this would be true for any provider.

Everyone who the swiss gov explicitly forces them to?