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This is just ridiculous.. If they receive a notice to log your IP address, they should notify you first. My trust in ProtonMail is gone.
by ajay-b 5y ago
This is just ridiculous.. If they receive a notice to log your IP address, they should notify you first. My trust in ProtonMail is gone.
- zpeti 5y agoI'm pretty sure in US law authorities can stop you from doing that, that's why these services have warrant canaries which are legally sound. Not sure what swiss law is like, but I can imagine they might not be allowed to notify the user?
- warp 5y agoAccording to their statement: > Under Swiss law, it is obligatory for a user to be notified if a third party makes a request for their private data and such data is to be used in a criminal proceeding. But the timeline is unclear to me. If they notified you via e-mail, and then immediately turned on IP logging. So... you'd go and check your e-mail, learn about the third-party request, but by then it's too late as your IP address has already been logged?
- dewey 5y ago> but by then it's too late as your IP address has already been logged? If someone is so sensitive about leaking their IP address and they access some service with their real IP and relying on a service's promise to not log it they already are not very careful to begin with.
- destitude 5y agoTechcrunch already went over this and the law allows you to delay notifying the person so it is in effect a worthless statement to make since all authorities would simply tell them not to notify the user.
- ipaddr 5y agoThey could notify the user after the username is entered to say the ip with this account is being logged are you sure you want to login?
- krageon 5y ago> they should notify you first. Worst-case they are not allowed to do this while the investigation is ongoing. As such, it will not happen this way.
- kepler1 5y agoSo, if someone is under investigation for criminal activity, you think they should be given advance warning of such?