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What about Proton? If you mean the fiasco a few weeks back then that's a false alarm where the internet just went apeshit over an innocent remark.
Edit: From what I've seen from these replies, it's all false alarms and nothing actually implicates Proton here. A Swiss company is not obligated to put up a disclaimer saying Trump bad every time they want to talk about American politics (which they only do so far as it pertains to their privacy mandate).
The article says they were literally forced to comply with the request by Swiss Law as the request went through the proper legal channels.
They also only disclosed the accounts recovery email address. Everything else was obtained by Apple.
Why is reading sources so hard for people?
Because it's much easier to get angry about misleading headlines. Comprehension is difficult.
the report came through channels which made them assume it was serious like terrorism. It was a request not a court order. why is reading so hard for people
You just flat out made that up. The Spanish police (federal police its not clear) made a request through the legal channels under their terrorism laws.
Whether or not it is terrorism is absolutely not up to Proton or any other business to decide, they just have to comply with the laws of the land in which they operate - in this case, Switzerland.
Where in the article does it say that?
Seems like they only gave up the recovery email and ip address
Okay now that's shitty.
Edit: Apparently not.
agree, using an apple email that's linked to your identity as recovery email was absolutely shitty OpSec by the activist, I mean come on!
Also their announcement to stop posting on Mastodon and this blogpost
The blog post where they talk about privacy being a non-partisan issue that effects people everywhere on the political spectrum, and warn the reader that Donald Trump is going to have effectively no checks on his power?
Yes, the one where they talk about this not being Trumps fault even though he is the fucking president and about all terror the right experienced under the previous administrations
And they're right, it's not Trump's fault that the NSA is as powerful and secretive as they are today, this is a problem decades in the making.
That's the one I was calling a false alarm. Their CEO later clarified what they meant, but the short of it is: Republicans are more likely to go after big tech (he backed this up by facts), and apparently Gail Slater does have a good track record (including working under Lina Khan during Biden's term). Yeah Republicans bad blah blah blah, but that's quite literally not their problem.