Condobloke
Well-Known Member
from that article:
The FBI didn’t get much back from Proton, but it did receive the recovery and associated email addresses linked to the ProtonMail user. They proved crucial, enabling the FBI to find more information about the person online and conduct a sweep across the suspect's internet accounts, including on Amazon, Apple, Coinbase, Google, PayPal and Spotify. The FBI didn’t make clear in the warrant why it needed to get account activity across the various platforms, though it was likely to gather further evidence.
I dont see that as a breach of that person's privacy, or indeed of proton's terms of service.
The boofhead involved was making a direct threat against another person.
I would applaud proton for the decision they made
“Any information received would be limited to metadata, since email contents, attachments, files, calendar entries, etc. are all end-to-end encrypted and no-one, not even Proton, can access them.”
I believe the inference has been addressed ^^^....and surely a reasonable minded person would be ok/forgiving for the help that proton did provide, scant though it may have been.
The FBI didn’t get much back from Proton, but it did receive the recovery and associated email addresses linked to the ProtonMail user. They proved crucial, enabling the FBI to find more information about the person online and conduct a sweep across the suspect's internet accounts, including on Amazon, Apple, Coinbase, Google, PayPal and Spotify. The FBI didn’t make clear in the warrant why it needed to get account activity across the various platforms, though it was likely to gather further evidence.
I dont see that as a breach of that person's privacy, or indeed of proton's terms of service.
The boofhead involved was making a direct threat against another person.
I would applaud proton for the decision they made
“Any information received would be limited to metadata, since email contents, attachments, files, calendar entries, etc. are all end-to-end encrypted and no-one, not even Proton, can access them.”
I believe the inference has been addressed ^^^....and surely a reasonable minded person would be ok/forgiving for the help that proton did provide, scant though it may have been.