Lesley Carhart Mar 7
It’s both disingenuous to celebrate Proton (who are a business making money in a friendly nation) as bulletproof, and to compare them to Google, who make money by mining your email content. Understand your threat model and message accordingly. 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.

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Show threadhertgMar 7
@hacks4pancakes I agree, but I got one small nitpick. As someone from Switzerland it's hard to agree with the "friendly nation" part, we got our fair share of surveillance laws which are continuously expanded, search for BÜPF and VÜPF for some specifics. So that whole marketing term of "Swiss privacy laws" is getting more and more meaningless.
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@hertg "friendly" in the sense that both countries legally share info upon request.
Reg. the current revision of the surveillance law, Proton wd leave CH if it passed.
They already started to disinvest towards GER.
Mar 7 at 11:14amWeb
Show threadhertgMar 7
@w00p Oh that might have been a misunderstanding on my part. I read it as a value judgement first, but I guess they meant friendly as in "friendly to the US" which is factual of course.