So if you're using Proton thinking it's "privacy-focused", it turns out they're giving data to the Feebs now. https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/
Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.

404 Media
@adrienne so who's left?

@nitinkhanna @adrienne

Nobody say Tuta, you're gonna jinx it.

@angelastella @nitinkhanna @adrienne

@Tutanota are you planning on working with law enforcement agencies? Not that I plan to break any laws, but this is such a defeat

@sharan @angelastella @nitinkhanna @adrienne @Tutanota Of course they do. Tuta would be shut down if they did not respond to orders from German courts. They're a business, not a radical project.

https://tuta.com/blog/transparency-report

Transparency Report & Warrant Canary | Tuta

Tuta rejected 75% of all requests from authorities in 2025.

Tuta
@COSAntiFascists I figured so much. There's the same law in Bosnia and Herzegovina, too, or a similar one. Once the court invites you and you're doing business under Bosnian laws...

@angelastella @nitinkhanna @adrienne Tuta complies with orders from law enforcement too.

Don't trust any email provider with your credit card information, IP address, or phone number. Don't expect Tuta to fight government orders on your behalf. All of these companies will comply rather than go out of existence, so you need to make sure they don't have your PII to begin with.

@COSAntiFascists @nitinkhanna @adrienne

Yeah, my access to state services depends either on an email provider (had problems with Tuta until I showed up in person to settle the issue because they're not goddamn Google) or WhatsApp. Guess if I have to route PII via such channels.

@angelastella @nitinkhanna @adrienne You should compartmentalize your emails. Make a personal email and a separate one for radical projects. If you're using the email to access state services, Proton or Tuta giving your credit card data over due to an order from an overseas government is going to be the least of your worries.

The 404 article is about a proton email setup for an anonymous radical project that was investigated for terrorism. The alleged admin of this project made the mistake of paying for the email account with a payment method associated with their personal identity, which is how they were identified from the Proton account.

@angelastella fyi, i don't know anything about Posteo but apparently they might be good? https://furry.engineer/@ysegrim/116181161858800673
Ysegrim (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] While Posteo.de stores your payment details (they have to), they do not connect it to your account. The only information connected to your account is _that_ you paid. Meaning, while they already straight out reject a third of their requests for formal incorrectness (and file complaints), last year they never provided any user/payment data because they straight up do not store it. https://posteo.de/en/site/transparency_report

Furry.Engineer - Duct tape, hotfixes, and poor soldering!

@adrienne

At first sight they look a bit better than Tuta. Thank you.

@COSAntiFascists Tuta complies with German law, which sometimes -- not always -- requires them to do that. Tuta sometimes disagrees, and sometimes prevails in those disagreements.

@angelastella Germany has the same law. So do nearly all countries.

Everyone here needs to get over the childish fantasy that companies somehow exist outside legal and govt structures and are somehow magically immune to them.