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> The expectation that Proton would be able to disobey the legal requests of their local authorities with impunity is unrealistic. Untrue. There are many way
by ur-whale 5y ago
> The expectation that Proton would be able to disobey the legal requests of their local authorities with impunity is unrealistic.
Untrue.
There are many way to resist authority without being seen as blatantly disobeying the law.
In this particular case, they could have gone with the standard: "can't technically do it, we don't have the infrastructure". Or: "the guys who manages the logs just quit, we can't recover the information". Or: "we don't have the budget to implement that, it'd bankrupt us" ... etc ... make as many lame excuses as the day is long.
Drag things into court and just bog the effing big brother machine down in technicalities long enough until they simply give up or the French activist has had ample time to skedaddle.
- yaris 5y agoThe ways you've listed would work only once (each). With several hundreds of requests per year PM would pretty quickly run out of plausible excuses to not start storing the requested info. Also - what is so precious about this particular request compared to 700 requests PM received last year (if we trust PM on that)? Also - the purpose of any commercial activity (which surely PM email service is) is to make money for their owners. How much money and for how long would come from PM if they constantly would be resisting authorities (or from authorities point of view - obstructing justice)?
- ur-whale 5y ago> quickly run out of plausible excuses plausibility and the legal system are two vastly different things. regarding your second point, you're correct, except for the fact they've been blatantly lying about what their product is and does.
- tiahura 5y agoYou might want to read at least one of the many articles about this before posting so that you don’t look dumb.