A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.

I saw this over on reddit and people complaining that they “betrayed” their user base. It’s amazing how many people think just because they’re privacy based that means they won’t respond to a lawful court order.

  • ItWasntMe@discuss.onlineOPEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Honestly it’s my take. I have proton. I know i’m paying with a credit card so if they were served a warrant for my information, they’d get it. BUT they wouldn’t get anything from my email because 1) It’s encrypted and 2) it’s encrypted with my own key and not the one generated by Proton when you create an account. I casually wonder if someone didn’t fully understand the nuance of things like this in the modern surveilance state.

    • Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      151·
      1 day ago
      1. It’s encrypted and 2) it’s encrypted with my own key

      None of this is of any use if the mailbox of the sender or recipient of the email is not also encrypted.

    • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      142·
      1 day ago

      Yeah, I’m also using proton and knew about this type of situation happening before. If I was going to do something illegal/disruptive enough to attract the attention of police, I simply would not attach my personal email to it. I just don’t see why anyone would think that the police won’t have a way of tracing a service that you paid for with banking details in your name back to you. It’s just shitty opsec.