That is exactly what they did, the user used a credit card with their damn name on it, while Proton even allows you to send them cash money for the service.

The FBI filed a MLAT (Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty) request which was processed by the Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police.

The Swiss gave a legal binding order to Proton to hand over information that they had, the only information that was handed over was the payment identifier.

I don't get why people get hung up on a company complying with a legal order by their justice system, especially with Proton that could not hand over any more information.

[–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Same. It’s not like these companies can just say no to legal orders within the bounds of their laws. Even solo FOSS devs with their fledgling privacy centric messager apps would have to comply with their country’s laws. I also think a fair number of users that get outraged over it aren’t big on actually reading the privacy policies for the services they use. IMO Proton didn’t do anything surprising here if one reads that policy.