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Before we pull the panic trigger, based on the justice.gov link you provided (because I cannot read German nor do I feel like putting it through a translator) a
by lax4ever 5y ago
Before we pull the panic trigger, based on the justice.gov link you provided (because I cannot read German nor do I feel like putting it through a translator) all Protonmail appears to have provided was the registration date of the account in question. The defendant apparently emailed himself his passwords to several accounts including the offending Protonmail account.
- muuvmuuv 5y agoPull the trigger because Protonmail‘s CEO said that they would leave Austria before cooperating with any agencies. They are still in Austria so they have to corporate through the BÜPF.
- ferguson_today 5y agoAt the end of the day Protonmail itself is a company and they have to follow some rules to keep their operations running. If you look at their transparency report you'll see that they have been complying with government request, both local and international since 2017 https://protonmail.com/blog/transparency-report/ https://protonmail.com/blog/transparency-report/
- elmo2you 5y agoWhat you are saying is (of course) correct. But that makes the posturing / marketing of Protonmail no less deceptive if not outright dishonest. It can indeed be (cynically) argued that Protonmail is just a company like any other, which will just say / claim whatever it thinks it has to, to find itself a slice of the market and make a buck. Nonetheless and even while that might actually be the case (I'm not sure), in "the good old days" (/sarcasm) citizens still had something like tar and feathers to deal with dishonest business practices. I wonder what do citizens / consumers actually have these days? Please don't respond with: "voting with our feet", because that is not how things work with deceptive marketing.
- mahkeiro 5y agoWhy are you refering to Austria?
- sschueller 5y agoYou mean Switzerland, BÜPF is a law in Switzerland.