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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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[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 days ago

Most data is encrypted, so the government wouldn't be able to use it anyway.

There is some metadata though. I believe in the past they used Proton to be able to link a criminal to a back-up e-mail address he entered.