Proton MailJan 8, 2024

If you think big fines work on #BigTech, think again.

Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon, and Microsoft generated enough revenue in the past 7 days to pay off their fines for 2023.

Taking advantage of your privacy is so lucrative, that these fines are nothing more than the cost of doing business.

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Show threadDavid Penfold Feb 19, 2024
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Reminder that Protonmail is under Swiss jurisdiction and foreign governments can request metadata such as who you sent emails to, IP addresses, and date and time, as the French did for ecological activists, and got it.
Show threadProton MailFeb 19, 2024
@davep Let us also clarify that all communication services are legislated to a degree in every country and that Swiss legislation is superior to most when it comes to privacy. Additionally, Proton contests every legal request we can, and we have also strengthened the protection of our users' privacy through a court victory against the Swiss government: https://proton.me/blog/court-strengthens-email-privacy
Swiss court ruling strengthens privacy for email providers | Proton

A Swiss court has ruled that Proton Mail, as an email service, is not a telecommunications provider, meaning we are not subject to a telecommunications provider’s enhanced data retention obligations.

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Show threadDavid Penfold 

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I knew about the Swiss legal situation a decade ago, and it (along with other things) was the reason I didn't set up my security minded system.

Your users were not aware of the risks until it hit the media. You should be highlighting them instead of minimising them so people can decide to use your products or not based on their threat model.

Ideally, you should be looking at removing all metadata you can in order to make the warrants less useful

Feb 19, 2024 at 2:08pmWeb