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> spreading FUD > ProtonMail cooperates with authorities by putting probes on specific accounts Well, this is new information for me in it's own right.

• rndgermandude 5y ago
  Honestly, it is very much phrased in a way suggesting FUD to me, or at the very least deliberately "misleading". >On the basis of data from ProtonMail, which was sent to the USA by way of legal assistance, it emerged that the defendant had used several user accounts at ProtonMail. This outright goes out off it's way to avoid saying that the Swiss lawfully requested data from ProtonMail under Swiss law and passed it along to US law enforcement, most likely as a result of a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty [1]. The sentence attempts to make it sound like ProtonMail directly supplied the USA with data. >According to the corresponding affidavit, this email service was ProtonMail. The relevant emails end accordingly with "Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email". This makes it sound like ProtonMail passed along the emails. ProtonMail themselves say they did not. Instead the emails were obtained from other email services that had received the emails. You yourself write >ProtonMail cooperates with authorities by putting probes on specific accounts The term "putting probes" would suggest to me they installed some kind of additional surveillance for specific accounts. There is nothing to suggest ProtonMail put/puts "probes" on users. All they did, they say, was query their existing customer database, and all they really did deliver to the US (or rather the Swiss, who then passed it on to the US) was "This account was created on this date", but nothing else. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_legal_assistance_treaty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_legal_assistance_treaty