But it should be said. People should know that proton has been forced to give up info.

Just thought an asterisk should be there.

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Yes they have to comply with certain government warrants

Yes. What info did they give?

After a quick search:

> The Swiss company sells itself on its privacy features, promising to let uses "take control" of their personal data.

> But it had been legally obliged to collect data from an account said to be linked to a "climate activist" arrested by French police, ProtonMail said.

Not data, metadata. There is a diference.

You're not making sense. Metadata is a category of data, but you seem to be calling it "not data" and suggesting the difference is like, whole different etymological roots or something (incorrect)

There is. Metadata is information about a set of data. So no, they are not the same. Hence one is called METAdata and the other data.

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Well fuck then, how about them chat bots motherfucker?!

They do be getting good

IP address of some activist.

But no messages at all? How can you be an activist and not protect your IP address

He was using their VPN.....

Sorry he was using their email service.

💯 this !

Are there really ANY companies that WOULDN'T give customer info to local authorities if ordered to? Please name them.

Mullvad?