Protecting children online is crucial, but forcing every user to hand over their ID is a privacy nightmare waiting to happen, according to the head of the Swiss privacy firm
Ah yes, Proton, the company infamous for providing anonymity online, and totally never rugpulling their customers everytime the swiss government rolls up with a search warrant.
What are they supposed to do when the police comes knocking with a warrant, not comply until they get shutdown for good?
Besides, afaik there has never been any instance where proton handed over any of the supposedly encrypted data like VPN traffic and EMails. They usually hand over the contact information that’s part of the payment process people use, the stuff they are legally required to keep for 5+ years even if you send them a gdpr deletion request.
There was a lot of questionable stuff said and done by the board members and I’m really annoyed that they fight against ads but have the audacity to regularly send promotions themselves.
But in terms of data safety they do exactly what they advertise, keeping everything on their servers private.
They have always been very clear that they will comply with Swiss law, they have never said otherwise. They chose Switzerland to be based out of due to existing legal protections there are better than most countries. And they limit what they hand over to the legal minimum, again something they have been clear about.
Ah yes, Proton, the company infamous for providing anonymity online, and totally never rugpulling their customers everytime the swiss government rolls up with a search warrant.
What are they supposed to do when the police comes knocking with a warrant, not comply until they get shutdown for good?
Besides, afaik there has never been any instance where proton handed over any of the supposedly encrypted data like VPN traffic and EMails. They usually hand over the contact information that’s part of the payment process people use, the stuff they are legally required to keep for 5+ years even if you send them a gdpr deletion request.
There was a lot of questionable stuff said and done by the board members and I’m really annoyed that they fight against ads but have the audacity to regularly send promotions themselves.
But in terms of data safety they do exactly what they advertise, keeping everything on their servers private.
They have always been very clear that they will comply with Swiss law, they have never said otherwise. They chose Switzerland to be based out of due to existing legal protections there are better than most countries. And they limit what they hand over to the legal minimum, again something they have been clear about.
This is right on the homepage
But in this instance, are they wrong because of all that?