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PM mails are encrypted with PGP at rest, as is metadata. The police can request to log incoming and outgoing mail metadata if available but not retroactively.
by zaarn 5y ago
PM mails are encrypted with PGP at rest, as is metadata. The police can request to log incoming and outgoing mail metadata if available but not retroactively.
- aero-glide2 5y agoWait what's stopping them from logging the body of email too then?
- zaarn 5y agoThe body is metadata too? It might be encrypted as well, making that effort less effective.
- globular-toast 5y agoRight, if you trust that they only store the encrypted version. But the comment at the top of the thread is talking about logging once the police are interested in you. At that point they can log anything you send to them (or somebody else sends to them), including plaintext emails.
- zaarn 5y agoYes, but it's hardly surprising that criminal investigations tend to evaporate some privacy standards very quickly. ProtonMail doesn't want to get hit by the stick too. And before anyone suggests that PM should have been more "open/honest" about this, I disagree, the fact that a criminal investigation will do this is well known and mentioning it would be akin to asking your bank to plaster "if the world economy implodes, we might not be able to pay out your account" all over their frontpages.