Proton Mail gave FBI payment data from Swiss servers, proving encrypted email privacy has limits when governments use legal treaties to demand user information.
  • gravitas@lem.ugh.im
    18·
    2 hours ago

    Im not a fan of proton, but this trend of blaming corps for individuals poor opsec (paying with a method linked to their real identity) is pretty lame.

    Do people using these services actually expect a corporation to break laws or violate court orders on behalf of their users?

    Proton regularly releases very clear info about how often they comply with legal orders, this isnt a secret and its certainly not protons fault that activists had poor opsec.

  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts
    7·
    1 hour ago

    Proton handed over the info to the Swiss government under a specific law. The Swiss government then turned around and readily handed over that info to the FBI without telling Proton that’s what was going to happen.

    It doesn’t make anyone innocent here. Just adding that for clarity because this headline I keep seeing is not correct.

  • 64bithero@lemmy.world
    3·
    55 minutes ago

    Morality / Deepstate convos aside. I personally I can’t really fault proton on here. They are the only public provider I’ve seen with 0 tracking across any of their apps.

    What they provided was payment info.

    • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      24 minutes ago

      Privacy ≠ Anonymity.

      They are not the same thing, and proton are very transparent about what they will and won’t do in this regard.