Gina16h ago

Well, this is unfortunate.

"Proton built Proton Meet to escape the CLOUD Act. They built it on CLOUD Act infrastructure. Their website promises "not even government agencies" can access your calls. The company routing them hands your call records to the [US] government when asked. Proton hid them from their privacy policy."

#proton #protonmail #digitalsovereigty #opensource

https://www.sambent.com/proton-meet-isnt-what-they-told-you/

Proton Meet Isn't What They Told You It Was

Proton built Proton Meet to escape the CLOUD Act. They built it on CLOUD Act infrastructure. Their website promises "not even government agencies" can access your calls. The company routing them hands your call records to the government when asked. Proton hid them from their privacy policy.

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Show threadJakeKb15h ago
@Gina Irrelevant question, but is there an actual private video-call platform and if yes which is it?
Show threadRegendans15h ago

@JakeKb @Gina If you have 75 or less video call attendees then Signal can be your E2EE video-call choice.

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360052977792-Group-Calling-Voice-or-Video

Group Calling - Voice or Video

Like all Signal messages, group voice and group video calls are private too. You will be prompted to grant the Camera and Microphone permissions the first time you make or receive a Signal call.  G...

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Show threadLucas Bentley14h ago

@regendans @JakeKb @Gina
Signal works for those who have a cell phone only I believe.

I use @hostpoint and KMeet from Infomaniak for individual video calls (ex. My Mom).

Show threadKye.br 12h ago
@bentley_lucas @regendans @JakeKb @Gina @hostpoint Now I believe you can have accounts that are not tied to a phone number.
Show threadgroxx
@Kyebr @bentley_lucas @regendans @JakeKb @Gina @hostpoint (someone please correct me if needed, I would love to be wrong but)
You still need that phone number to set up or (IIRC) log back into an account from scratch on a new device. What changed is that you no longer have to *reveal* that phone number so people can contact you (usernames), and you can disable "people can contact me by phone number" (forcing only the username).
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