Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch
Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist | TechCrunch
Spanish police requested information from Apple, and encrypted services Proton and Wire, about a pro-Catalan independence activist.
By the way, the earlier posted article https://restoreprivacy.com/protonmail-discloses-user-data-leading-to-arrest-in-spain had an update starting at the paragraph with title Update: Statement from Proton and additional commentary
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"Encrypted"
Proton and Wire didn't share any decrypted ciphertexts, Wire shared a ProtonMail address and Proton an iCloud Address that they had set as a recovery method.
Personal info like where they live came from Apple.
I know wire and proton are encrypted. Apple services certainly aren't though.
They didn't require any encrypted data. Apple has your name and payment details unencrypted, as they need them to charge you.
Most Apple services can be encrypted including iCloud. Basically email and calendaring are not covered.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651#advanced
If you set it up as “advanced” then only you hold the recovery keys.
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Yes. They never gave away content of emails, because they couldn’t even if they wanted to. It’s encrypted.
They gave the recovery email for the account to the authorities, which was an iCloud account tied to the user’s real name.
I know you're correct about proton. Didn't realize they were all like that.