Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy?
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
So Protonmail was required to log the IP of the user after being ordered to via the proper international Swiss legal channeks, per Swiss/Europol law. And at some point recently, Protonmail thus removed the copy from their frontpage that advertised never tracking IPs.
What the article doesn’t really explain, is what exactly changed about Swiss or euro law? And when? What rules or acts have sprung up that made this possible? Or, was this always something that was possible that has only just now made precedent?
vector@no.lastname.nz 1 week ago
Then what makes a privacy oriented service different from others when they can open a backdoor for government? The thing is government wants control and they will change laws for exactly that. What Proton should have done was to eliminate the chance of this happening in the first place. Why are they having a logging mechanism? Why don’t they use RAM only servers or something like that? Privacy services should have the infrastructure and legal power to say “No”, or they are lying.
infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
You need to read the article. It explicitly and IMO satisfactorily answers your questions.