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ProtonMail provides information used to identify email owner...
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this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2026
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Proton was legally ordered by the Swiss justice department to hand over the (severely limited) information about a law breaking organization's account. They had paid for Proton using a credit card instead of the anonymous payment methods Proton offers, and that is what Proton was forced to hand over. It was the organization's bad OpSec, not Proton willingly deanonymizing users.
Hopefully people like you will be able to nip this in the bud before yet another joke of a controversy starts...
OP's title certainly doesn't help.
Why do you think Proton stores the association between accounts and payment identity?
Many privacy-oriented companies actually accept credit card payments and simply don't store that information.
answer:
proton is snake oilRecurring payments I think
Another comment linked to a reddit post where Proton explained what happened.
Yeah, the credit card was on file for recurring payments.