I use Mullvad, not as much to hide my identy, but to avoid trackers and ads. It's unfair to everyone who is being cautious and using the tools correctly. To sacrifice all of that infrastructure and tooling just to take a bullet for someone who was careless or ignorant with how they were using the services does not seem right. For people who can be bothered to use the resources correctly, what Proton offers is an amazing contribution to the privacy rights movement. Because it won't last long and I'd expect LE to start infiltrating, spying and raiding. Graphite If Proton were to start breaking the law to keep customers shielded, I'd leave.
Even if the user connected with Proton's own free VPN service, that would have sufficiently obfuscated their traffic because the IP address doesn't lead anywhere (under current Swiss law, email and VPN are treated differently, and Proton VPN cannot be compelled to log user data.) If Proton turned over an IP address for the emails that lead to a no-logs VPN, that would have been the end of the trail. You are letting the facts get away from you.Īccording to Andy Yen's blog post (which is worth a read if you haven't yet), either would have sufficed perfectly fine. Proton didn't sell anyone's data, nor was this case related to their VPN service to begin with. What is the point of having VPN then if they sell your data. It seems unfair to blame the email provider when a user cannot take even the most rudimentary precautions to protect their anonymity.ĭlb It doesn't matter. Considering they were under criminal investigation, they were frankly a bit careless. Proton even offers an onion site ( ) for anonymous access-very uncommon for an email provider-which is a resource this person obviously did not take advantage of. I think an important thing to note is the whole thing would have been made impossible if the user had simply connected with Tor or a VPN to send their emails. Proton CEO Andy Yen responded to the event in a blog post here: If they tried to illegally conceal the data, they would have been shut down, and Proton employees would have been arrested. Legally, Proton had no way out of it and no option to appeal the request.
My understanding is it was just simple internet traffic logs that were turned over (they didn't break encryption on the emails or anything like that). Proton were legally compelled to turn over data related to the IP address certain emails were sent from, and the IP address was useful in engineering the arrest. Kottonballs I've tried to find proof of Proton turning on logging for a user but can't seem to find anything.įrench police arrested a climate activist in September 2021.
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