Re:Proton is trying to become Google without your data
by emendation on Thursday May 26, 2022 @06:04PM
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As the article states, they were forced to by Swiss authorities. They tried to fight against it, but in the end no reputable provider is going to put the whole company on the line for 1 user against a lawful order from their government.
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Re:Proton is trying to become Google without your data
by Ansil849 on Thursday May 26, 2022 @06:58PM
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Uh-huh. Then perhaps they shouldn't be touting Swiss privacy laws like they're some holy golden shield. And once again:
> Why's a privacy-first service logging IPs in the first place?
Re:Proton is trying to become Google without your data
by emendation on Thursday May 26, 2022 @07:55PM
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Did you read the article you yourself linked?
> French police sent a request to Swiss police via Europol to force the company to obtain the IP address of one of its users
They weren't logging until they were forced to.
Re:Proton is trying to become Google without your data
by CyanBird on Friday May 27, 2022 @01:01AM
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And since then they have been logging thousands upon thousands of other addresses
A while back on the very hackernews thread when the news of the French activist being jailed it was highly discussed, the source of the data being ProtonMail themselves