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Police shut more than 14,000 accounts on Mega, Tutanota and Protonmail
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I'd like to know more about the specifics involved. I've migrated my whole suite over to Proton and just want to know the specifics here. Guess I won't know until Proton decides to frame their answer in a blogpost.
You don't need that: Proton will only surrender accounts/information to local authorities with the appropriate paperwork - and that's their selling point on privacy, swiss law being pretty protective of privacy ; in this case, a corpus of evidence has been submitted by a recognized foreign entity & considered valid for action in regard to swiss law.
That's what makes proton secure for journalists, political opponents and such: no swiss judge will enable any random dictator to get a dissident's info, it won't fly with swiss law. And if that escalates to bogus criminal charges, it is still up to a swiss judge to decide how and if to proceed.
You put your trust in Switzerland here, not in a nerdy business with an atom-smashing background.
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