Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency
limer@lemmy.ml 15 hours agoUnder USA law proton cannot reveal some requests, or even talk about deeper collaboration.
This is why some services use canaries. When something is removed from a page it can be assumed they ante under a gag order. This has happened many times ,see en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
By and large political opposition in an authoritarian country should not use tools under that jurisdiction.
I would definitely base my email outside of that influence.
artyom@piefed.social 13 hours ago
What does US law have to do with anything? Proton is based out of Switzerland.
limer@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
They now have offices in the USA and if you look at what they say, they announce their operating under Swiss and USA law.
artyom@piefed.social 11 hours ago
Can you show me where they announce they're "operating" under US law and not just complying with US requests provided Swiss warrants?
limer@lemmy.ml 10 hours ago
If you look at their terms of service, they only talk about US law and Swiss law, no matter of which version. See proton.me/de/legal/terms (German version), proton.me/legal/terms (English version)
I am not at all an international legal expert! However I follow some legal threads elsewhere and there is no serious dissent that the legal status of Proton is, at best, hard to tell, when it comes to this issue. And perhaps can only be determined in court cases later.
It is at this point I must abandon the replies to this, but I must say there are too many uncertainties for certain groups to fully reply on this service