The guy went on a lobbying trip to DC and was heard by GOP folks and not dems. So what? That’s all we know. Were dems busy that day? Did he try a different approach when he talked to the right. Anyone can go to DC and be heard or ignored on a lobbying trip.
Also, the content creator of the video was not vetted for sponsorship because they don’t usually do that. They admitted fault and are changing procedures to appropriately vet moving forward. I think their marketing team might even be external. Also, fascists never admit fault or accept accountability.
This sounds like big tech doesn’t want competition. You’ve seen google prevent side loading, and do a ton of shady things at this point. Why not a smear campaign too?
Thus guy might be a raging fascist dickhead for all I know. I’m just pointing out that the supposed evidence falls short and proves nothing.
Concerns I see are that Proton encourages you to import spam from your last account
They were lobbying in the US (there are good reasons to do that though)
They send your gmail notifications that you have new Proton emails along with details of that email if you use your old gmail as a recovery while transitioning - just use a different recovery email
None of those actual concerns have anything to do with far right ideologies.
Citation needed.
Proton did say “we intentionally avoid association with channels whose content could distract from our message and divide our community,” which is the exact opposite of this claim.
This is new information to me, going to look it up and add it to my list.
Also notable are
Nobody made Proton look like this.
Andy publicly supported ONE person in the admin who ended up being ousted anyway for not kowtowing to Trump’s bullshit.
This is nowhere near the same thing as supporting the whole admin.
What you consider “praise” was nothing more than a simple statement of fact:
That is an objectively factual statement. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean it’s wrong. The rest of the comment prior to the edit was factual as well.
And if you really want to dig deep - they weren’t wrong about the Dems, either.
The people who run Proton are not based in the US and do not carry US-centric viewpoints. For a large amount of the civilized world, the US’s entire history is nothing more than a footnote. Keep that in mind next time you take major offence to a valid external viewpoint.
Proton is a Swiss company, therefore they are legally obligated to comply with Swiss law. This includes handing over any data requested when legally subpoenaed.
You know you can just link to the actual source instead of one creator’s personal opinion. Proton is very up front about how it operates, it’s spelled out pretty clearly in that document.
These cases are mostly because of legal limitations and user anonymity hygiene. One was about the person using their personally identifiable email as their recovery email, which is something Proton has to retain (for recovery purpses obvs) and is something they have to handover if the laws of the country they operate in allow the government to ask for it. The other was the person using a personally identifiable payment method, although I’m not familiar with Proton’s policies on retaining that data.
There is no circumstance under which Proton should have kept this data, assuming the account was old enough. Sure, you can say “credit” but I can just as well say that if Proton sells its business on the idea of keeping data secure or at as-low risk as possible, then they should offer lifetime / one-time payment options so that the payment information would have expired already or at least would not be renewed forever.
And don’t tell me that doesn’t exist. I’m a user of SDF. They offer such plan.
If Proton has legal limitations, they have a responsibility to disclose them. Instead, they promise Swiss law, and they themselves, will protect users.
https://protonvpn.com/features/swiss-based
https://proton.me/
https://proton.me/
And Proton doesn’t need to store recovery email addresses unencrypted: they could hash them. Or at least warn about the danger of providing one.
also let’s not pretend the recovery email is for the user - it’s for proton to ensure they don’t register spammers that can get their domain blocklisted
None of those are mutually exclusive from having to comply with the federal side of Swiss law. They are correct in that Swiss privacy laws are far better than that of the US. But any company operating in any locale is legally obligated to comply with the local laws.
That shouldn’t matter when you take a look at technical merit.
In some cases, but not that I can see in this case - maybe you have a specific example of what and why, compared to other similar privacy-centric services?
Especially because for a majority of its services, specifically regarding Mail, but also VPN and AI, privacy through Proton requires unprovable trust because Proton always gets to look at your data (respectively: most email contents, the same data as your ISP, and your AI chats).