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> Rather than rehash all this here, there are a lot of posts about ProtonMail and the foundational claims they make about being a company operated out of Switze
by soziawa 5y ago
> Rather than rehash all this here, there are a lot of posts about ProtonMail and the foundational claims they make about being a company operated out of Switzerland. I'd suggest reading those critiques.
Looking at the top ten posts on HN about ProtonMail does not give any such articles or top comments. So at least a link would be nice.
> The process of becoming a surveillance state is a slow one, you don't just wake up with government operated/connected cameras on every corner.
Can you give any indication that this is more of an issue in Switzerland compared to other countries?
This is very vague and looks like it is more of a critique of ProtonMail instead of Switzerland as a whole.
- kodah 5y agoI'm a paying ProtonMail user, so no, not really a critique of ProtonMail. Switzerland's laws are the foundation of ProtonMail: https://protonmail.com/blog/switzerland/ https://protonmail.com/blog/switzerland/ ProtonMail must comply with Swiss law, regardless of what people think, and as Switzerland progressively becomes surveillance state it will have to comply more: https://www.securityweek.com/protonmail-accused-voluntarily-helping-police-spy-users https://www.securityweek.com/protonmail-accused-voluntarily-... This post on Reddit sums up, fairly well, what I usually hear from privacy interested users of ProtonMail: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/49u8vy/protonmail_concerns/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/49u8vy/protonma... For some more direct points: https://privacy-watchdog.io/truth-about-protonmail/ https://privacy-watchdog.io/truth-about-protonmail/ While it may not be immediately obvious, if you follow each of these points they connect back to compliance in some way.