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Proton has handed over 32,076 users' data to governments since 2017. Their own transparency report states a 94% compliance rate in 2024. (infosec.pub)
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[–] IceFoxX@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/privacy-focused-protonmail-provided-a-users-ip-address-to-authorities/

[–] Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Privacy is not anonymity. In this case they were required to supply IP addresses of users logging into a certain account in an active investigation.

As usual, the devil is in the details—ProtonMail’s original policy simply said that the service does not keep IP logs “by default.” However, as a Swiss company itself, ProtonMail was obliged to comply with a Swiss court’s injunction demanding that it begin logging IP address and browser fingerprint information for a particular ProtonMail account.