I was actively looking to move my family over there.
When the CEOs spouted his Trump BS it made me look a little harder.
I see that they’ve doxed an activist.
They claim to be open source and then as you drill down you find out that some of their stuff is open source and some is not.
Switzerland looking at amending their privacy laws to further force companies to log and dox VPN users. Proton claim they would be willing to move the company outside of Switzerland if these laws take effect but will have to wait and see I guess.
There’s a crap ton of either PR or fanboying going on for this company. I really want to see them get their shit together but you can’t just discount this stuff like it’s not happening. 400 people running around going I have never had any trouble with them privacy wise, and I don’t think they all sell any of my data, It’s not a good indicator of a company’s privacy prowess.
I think we have good enough reason not to trust the CEO from his Twitter, and I think their marketing department is slimy as shit. I think the country they’re based out of is going to force them to comply with too many court orders.
I’d say there less likely to market your data than Google/Microsoft. But they’re also less likely to anonymize it correctly if they do so. Since Google runs their own ad network they don’t need to sell your private data to other people to use it to market against you.
If Trump called up Andy Yen and asked him for a name, home address, IP address, phone number, and credit card mapping for all of his users he would fall over himself to provide that for hopes of a government contract. That doesn’t sit well with me for a privacy concept.
If you’re not worried about being doxed by a state agency, and would just prefer your data not be sold rather than it being a absolute critical thing because they might not sell your data, there definitely good enough.
If you’re a little worried about putting all your eggs in one basket and want to be able to move from company to company without turning the world over, I would look at tuta and disroot, mulvad and backblaze. Or maybe even self-hosting nextcloud for the storage component on one of those services that allows you to just spin up nextcloud on a vps with single click.
I was actively looking to move my family over there.
When the CEOs spouted his Trump BS it made me look a little harder.
I see that they’ve doxed an activist.
They claim to be open source and then as you drill down you find out that some of their stuff is open source and some is not.
Switzerland looking at amending their privacy laws to further force companies to log and dox VPN users. Proton claim they would be willing to move the company outside of Switzerland if these laws take effect but will have to wait and see I guess.
There’s a crap ton of either PR or fanboying going on for this company. I really want to see them get their shit together but you can’t just discount this stuff like it’s not happening. 400 people running around going I have never had any trouble with them privacy wise, and I don’t think they all sell any of my data, It’s not a good indicator of a company’s privacy prowess.
I think we have good enough reason not to trust the CEO from his Twitter, and I think their marketing department is slimy as shit. I think the country they’re based out of is going to force them to comply with too many court orders.
I’d say there less likely to market your data than Google/Microsoft. But they’re also less likely to anonymize it correctly if they do so. Since Google runs their own ad network they don’t need to sell your private data to other people to use it to market against you.
If Trump called up Andy Yen and asked him for a name, home address, IP address, phone number, and credit card mapping for all of his users he would fall over himself to provide that for hopes of a government contract. That doesn’t sit well with me for a privacy concept.
If you’re not worried about being doxed by a state agency, and would just prefer your data not be sold rather than it being a absolute critical thing because they might not sell your data, there definitely good enough.
If you’re a little worried about putting all your eggs in one basket and want to be able to move from company to company without turning the world over, I would look at tuta and disroot, mulvad and backblaze. Or maybe even self-hosting nextcloud for the storage component on one of those services that allows you to just spin up nextcloud on a vps with single click.