Stunner legal entity follows the law…
Fellas your VPN is not going to break the law for you.
Yep. That’s why when shopping for services, more weight should be put on what data they retain. It doesn’t matter if they comply with laws in the country they operate in if they have no data to hand over.
I’m using Proton for privacy, not anonymity. I’ve literally put my name and surname in my email address. I don’t care if someone knows that me is me.
But I do care that no one is reading and/or automatically processing my mails.
Proton’s privacy policies state that they retain unencrypted metadata (addresses, timestamps, etc.) which are required to provide the service. This information may be disclosed to law enforcement. However, the actual content in your account is largely end-to-end encrypted. Law enforcement might request it, but without the keys to decrypt it they won’t be able to read your data.
Metadata tracking should be very concerning to anyone who cares about privacy because it inherently builds a social graph. The server operators, or anyone who gets that data, can see a map of who is talking to whom. The content is secure, but the connections are not.
Being able to map out a network of relations is incredibly valuable. An intelligence agency can take the map of connections and overlay it with all the other data they vacuum up from other sources, such as location data, purchase histories, social media activity. If you become a “person of interest” for any reason, they instantly have your entire social circle mapped out.
Worse, the act of seeking out encrypted communication is itself a red flag. It’s a perfect filter: “Show me everyone paranoid enough to use crypto.” You’re basically raising your hand. So, in a twisted way, tools for private conversations that share their metadata with third parties, are perfect machines for mapping associations and identifying targets such as political dissidents.
I don’t disagree with you, but sending and receiving emails requires transmission of unencrypted metadata. There’s no easy way around it
Right, which really suggests that email is not the right medium if you want genuine privacy.
Okay, but people still need emails for basic services and accounts, so would you rather them use Gmail or Proton?
Like duh don’t email your mom with a detailed plan on how you’re gonna do a terrorist attack. Crazy idea, I know.
Honestly, I suspect it makes very little difference in practice which one you’re using if you’re going to communicate with people outside Proton. If I use Gmail, and you send me an email from your Proton account, guess what happens.
The yanks were drone striking people in Iraq and Afganistan based on who was calling who, I’m certain they still do this kind of thing too. Your uncle’s an important guy and he calls you for your birthday? kablamo
exactly
Wasn’t their whole marketing point that they’ll have nothing meaningful to give out since everything’s properly E2E encrypted? Not sure how much the compliance rate matters when the provided data is useless. (They would need to comply in order to remain legally operating…)
Without a link to the report or any other justification information this reads like a hit piece. The other important item to understand is what information actually could be released.
As much as I dunk on proton for their CEOs idiocy and lack of Linux support, I also push for accuracy and infographics are dangerous in that space.
I’ll see if I can link the relevant info once I get home and am not on a phone anymore.
The data they can hand is your acc creation information and which IP accessed the email. They can’t hand email content because of zero knowledge encryption, and they can’t hand VPN traffic because it’s not logged and they can’t be forced to log it. https://protonvpn.com/support/no-logs-vpn/
The link is at the top of the image: https://proton.me/legal/transparency
No business is going to violate court orders on behalf of their users. What people need to learn is to not use the same provider for everything, vpn and email especially should be on different services.
I have started using message.casa.
