J.R. CrucianiProtonMail provides information used to identify email owner...
glitchingarticle in case you can’t read it: lemmy.ml/post/44086795
proton coulda put up a fight, a loud one, for optics sake if nothing else. rolling over on any (and by implication, all) request should be the last straw in their long line of snafus; by way of “death by a thousand cuts”, I would never entrust them with anything of importance.
signal demonstrated that you could decouple payment info from user data and a shop that touts the privacy part of their offerings coulda at least mimic such a thing.
Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester - Lemmy
Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester [https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.404media.co%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2026%2F03%2FStop_Cop_City.jpg] Privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media. The records provide insight into the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on its end-to-end encryption and that it is only governed by Swiss privacy law, can and does provide to third parties. In this case, the Proton Mail account was affiliated with the Defend the Atlanta Forest (DTAF) group and Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, which authorities were investigating for their connection to arson, vandalism and doxing. Broadly, members were protesting the building of a large police training center next to the Intrenchment Creek Park in Atlanta, and actions also included camping in the forest and lawsuits [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/georgia-cop-city-killing?ref=404media.co]. Charges against more than 60 people have since been dropped. — From 404 Media [https://www.404media.co/] via this RSS feed [https://www.404media.co/rss]
Arthur Bessearticle in case you can’t read it: lemmy.ml/post/44086795
that link only has two paragraphs of the article; there are 8 more in the full article here on archive.org
Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester - Lemmy
Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester [https://lemmy.ml/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.404media.co%2Fcontent%2Fimages%2F2026%2F03%2FStop_Cop_City.jpg] Privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media. The records provide insight into the sort of data that Proton Mail, which prides itself both on its end-to-end encryption and that it is only governed by Swiss privacy law, can and does provide to third parties. In this case, the Proton Mail account was affiliated with the Defend the Atlanta Forest (DTAF) group and Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, which authorities were investigating for their connection to arson, vandalism and doxing. Broadly, members were protesting the building of a large police training center next to the Intrenchment Creek Park in Atlanta, and actions also included camping in the forest and lawsuits [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/28/georgia-cop-city-killing?ref=404media.co]. Charges against more than 60 people have since been dropped. — From 404 Media [https://www.404media.co/] via this RSS feed [https://www.404media.co/rss]