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Proton has handed over 32,076 users' data to governments since 2017. Their own transparency report states a 94% compliance rate in 2024. (infosec.pub)

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[–] IceFoxX@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/privacy-focused-protonmail-provided-a-users-ip-address-to-authorities/

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Privacy is not anonymity. In this case they were required to supply IP addresses of users logging into a certain account in an active investigation.

As usual, the devil is in the details—ProtonMail’s original policy simply said that the service does not keep IP logs “by default.” However, as a Swiss company itself, ProtonMail was obliged to comply with a Swiss court’s injunction demanding that it begin logging IP address and browser fingerprint information for a particular ProtonMail account.

[–] IceFoxX@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

Yes, talk about it as nicely as you want. Ignore the facts and view them as lies. Feel free to trust that they don't have a key. I don't care. As a customer, I've been following what's been happening at Proton for long enough. What they say, what they promise, and what they actually do.
Feel free to vote me down because you don't like the reality. There's more to Proton's history, but I'm not going to look into it anymore because you don't want to know and instead punish those who give you sources. I'll laugh about it heartily in a few years.