We claim to build products which protect your data to the extent possible from everyone, including us, and protect our users from mass surveillance to the extent possible, and we do. We don’t volunteer to go to jail for you if the Swiss authorities think you’re a criminal and your OPSEC is shit.
Great article!
Dude…we encrypt pretty much everything everything we can, including basically all content. We can’t encrypt credit card payment information. We are very much “pro encryption” but if we get a Swiss court order, we comply.
Umm, we are privacy-focused. We encrypt pretty much everything we can. Payment details cannot be, nor can we ignore Swiss court orders.
Right, there’s no discretion here.
Swiss companies must comply with Swiss warrants. It’s not optional, nor is it optional for any company in any jurisdiction. MLATs are scrutinized by the Swiss authorities. If those authorities decide to help and issue a Swiss order, there is zero discretion here for Proton or any company.
ME: pack a bag, we’re flying to kansas
MY WAYWARD SON: what kind of bag
That is also my personal crackpot theory as to when we branched of the prime timeline (Bush vs. Gore) and entered our current bizarro world.
I kind of want to build an age verification service just to make sure there’s a least one vendor that doesn’t suck and isn’t a privacy nightmare.
You’d think that there would be enough historical examples (both very recent and not-so-recent) of how catering to the far-right leads to the center-right being eaten alive that the center-right would stop doing it.
I am so old I remember when state action in the form of a prior restraint was considered bad. And by bad, I mean like the worst thing ever.
But this is prior restraint jacked up on book banning steroids mixed with horrific bigotry.
It astounds me that in a time of rising authoritarianism, surveillance, and censorship, the elected leaders of liberal democracies somehow feel compelled to say, you know what we really need? More centralized governmental control of speech.
And apparently hypocrisy.
This is a very, very bad idea.
Disagree, it has plenty of legitimate uses and can be very important for safety. The problem with social media isn’t that you can pretend be a cat, it’s that algorithms make inflammatory shit go viral for engagement.
The moment a government department with “Homeland” in the name was created everyone knew that it would end up doing fascist shit.
Banning recommendation algorithms would by itself solve a lot of social media’s ills.
No, because that would be catastrophically idiotic.
Republicans are much too afraid of their base and Democrats not nearly afraid enough of theirs.
Please forward the mail to abuse@proton.me, harassment shouldn’t be OK even if it’s common.
Harassment is absolutely against the terms of service and results in a ban. Probably a burner account but if you want to report it we can take action.
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Oh shit Castle of the Winds hell yeah
I’m sorry I just found out that in 1379, as in, 650 years ago, a baby girl was born in Yorkshire and named Diot Coke
history is a fucking joke lmao
Not to us.
As a USian I looked at the words on this graph and wondered if I was having a stroke.
Aside from some payments stuff (unavoidable), one guess whose services have no AWS dependencies and were up all day today…hint is in bio.
Very nice to see my TEDx Porto talk is out! How #privacy can save your life. For more on privacy, get the #book - Privacy Is Power. #AIEthics
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Mike Johnson, resident Congressional Keebler elf, is a tiny man who is somehow even smaller metaphorically.