Proton, the Geneva-based encrypted email provider founded 11 years ago by three scientist who met at CERN, will freeze its investments in Switzerland, its chief executive Andy Yen told Le Temps on Wed
    • Frostbeard@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      What? Police can “subpoena” whatever the fuck they want. ISPs must log and keep them for years. Will share with allied intelligence services and Interpol. Never thought of Norwegian privacy laws as particularly strong…

    • ObsidianZed@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      The article states that Proton plans to move certain (AI) data centers to Germany and Norway, as they seemed those the most sensitive. I can imagine if these laws/policies are enacted, they would look to move all services.

      • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
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        8 days ago

        Well, Proton can move wherever they want and be as good as they what, I’ll never be a customer again because of what their fuckhead CEO Andy Yen said.

        I don’t care that he’s backpedaled, I don’t care that Andy Yen isn’t Proton-the-company, and I’m even willing to accept it was a very unfortunate duh moment on his part. Here the thing: I don’t have many ways as a nobody to get back at Trump, but one way is to not give any of my money to anybody who enabled him, even by mistake.

        So Proton is on my shitlist forever thanks to Yen.

    • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Yeah right, so much better to have your e-mails stored in clear text. With E2EE, I don’t give any fucks about local laws. My data stays my data.

        • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          7 days ago

          Protons’ copy is always encrypted. E2EE doesn’t apply when the recipient is on an external mail server (unless you explicitly encrypt it with their public PGP key).

          This still provides the major benefit of encrypting your email archive, and protection from data breach.

          • Damage@feddit.it
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            7 days ago

            I’m not well versed in encryption, can’t they just decrypt them at will? When I use their webmail I just login, I don’t provide any decryption pass