Your kid gets profiled online before they can spell 'privacy.'

We're aiming to change that with #BornPrivate.

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Most kids inherit their parents’ email provider. That one inbox becomes their login, their recovery method, their first entry in an ad profile.

This all happens before they understand what any of it means.

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Think about it: your parents gave you a Gmail address at 13. You used it for everything: games, shopping, school.

That data never disappeared. It got logged, cross-referenced, and packaged into a profile about you.

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Today we’re launching Born Private.

Proton Mail now lets parents reserve a private email address for their child:

➡️ The address is locked and preserved for up to 15 years
➡️ The inbox stays sealed: no messages, no activity, no profiling
➡️ When the child is ready, they or their parent activate it securely via voucher

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We're all born private. Let's make sure the next generation stays that way.

https://proton.me/mail/born-private/email

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Reserve your child’s first private email with Proton Mail | Proton

Give your child a safer start online. Reserve a private Proton Mail address that stays locked, ad-free, and untracked until they’re ready to use it.

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@protonprivacy oh! Thats nice. I wish there was a way to convert the account I already created for my kid into a voucher and keep it disabled until they need it.
@protonprivacy I think this is a wonderful idea, but just so you know, the internet was not invented until after I had my first college degree. I got my parents their first email address.
@protonprivacy I am old enough to have gone through phases.
I started when Google was nowhere to be seen
University email
First company email
Privately yahoo, then web.de, then gmx, never gmail, never hotmail. Then me.com, then proton, then tuta (I use both), own domain email, then anonaddy and SimpleLogin and now, my inbox has absolutely no spam.
@protonprivacy using an AI slop picture to talk about privacy is ridiculous
@frank @bebatjof @protonprivacy
The majority of diffusion models used privacy invasive methods to obtain training data.
You can make the "You put it online!" argument, but few anticipated developments in technology like this, and privacy policy changes are often obscured.
Like the other message in this thread, Google logs everything you upload. And now the use of that data has manifested itself in their LLM and diffusion models, which Proton may now be using as marketing.
@bebatjof @protonprivacy and donating millions to Drumpf.

@protonprivacy

*Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester*

https://archive.ph/Zvw3O

@protonprivacy “Won’t somebody think of the children” is the line they use for age verification, which is Trojan horse of surveillance creep. I’m not sure this adjacent marketing pitch is helpful.

@protonprivacy

Am I missing something? Why I would reserve an account for my kids now just to sit on it unused for years, when I could just wait and create one they need it? I just don't get it.

@IT_SME reserving the address or alias to match their name or whatever.
@pictor Thanks. I thought maybe there was more to it than that.

@protonprivacy So… gonna say anything about how you folks sold out the Stop Cop City protestors? Or are you going to keep lying about how much you guys just love privacy?

Come on. Let’s hear some more lies. Sell us some lakefront property in the Mojave. Promise us that Beanie Babies and tulips are still excellent investment vehicles. I’m dying to read the bullshit doublespeak you’re going to wield to justify your open cooperation with authoritarians. Make a mockery of yourselves to amuse us.

@oberstenzian They gave it to the Swiss Government after receiving a valid Swiss order. No company is above the law of which they reside in. Payment metadata is clearly stated in the privacy policy that it is something they will have to give if asked.

@faisal A valid Swiss order from the United States government.

You’re making an excellent argument for not trusting any corporation with our communications.

@protonprivacy Stop “innovating” and get back to keeping our stuff private and secure.