In most cases, they fight tooth and nail and use their own lawyers if necessary
Comment on ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist; Should You Be Worried About Your Privacy?
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Proton are very open about what they do and don’t provide.
They’re not going to protect you and they will turn on you the second they get a letter in the mail or a text from the cops.
But what they DO provide is the ability to register an email address (with a domain that isn’t blocked by most services) without providing any other information. And, from there, you can encrypt it yourself if it is a particularly sensitive message.
As for IP logging? if only there were tools like VPNs and Tor to negate that.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
mjr@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
Did they in this case?
vector@no.lastname.nz 2 weeks ago
IMO if proton can change their stance and their policies (like their website no longer says emails are anonymous), then I don’t think they are a good private service provider. The only thing going for proton now is that their emails are encrypted and can’t be read by them.
Who knows if a request came from a specific channel of the government that deals with crime, may be they will decrypt the content for them?
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
No.
The “only thing going for” them is the ability to sign up with zero personal information.
Do not trust a third party to encrypt your sensitive communications for you. Do not trust a third party to protect you. Instead, look at what the the third party actually offers you and figure out how you can take advantage of that.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is the kind of person that isn’t worried about incognito market black mailing them.