Proton is taking its privacy-first apps to a nonprofit foundation model
Proton is taking its privacy-first apps to a nonprofit foundation model
Because of Swiss laws, there are no shareholders, and only one mission.
- Proton, known for its secure email and productivity services, is transitioning to a nonprofit foundation model, ensuring it remains mission-focused without reliance on external subsidies.
- The Proton Foundation, now the primary shareholder, is located in Switzerland, which mandates that foundations act according to their established purpose, bolstering Proton's commitment to privacy.
- Proton has expanded its offerings to include cloud storage, password management, calendars, and VPN services, all designed with end-to-end encryption and hosted in Switzerland, enhancing its privacy-first approach.
We believe that if we want to bring about large-scale change, Proton can’t be billionaire-subsidized (like Signal), Google-subsidized (like Mozilla), government-subsidized (like Tor), donation-subsidized (like Wikipedia), or even speculation-subsidized (like the plethora of crypto “foundations”)," Proton CEO Andy Yen wrote in a blog post announcing the transition. "Instead, Proton must have a profitable and healthy business at its core."
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I'm sorry, but I'm not going to move all my Data to a company (even if non profit), that openly admits they give Europol complete and unrestricted access to said data. I'll stay with Posteo.
Wait, they give Europol access if and only if a swiss judge order it. They protect your privacy but neither you or them are above the law.
The part about a Swiss judge is missing from the website. Still, Posteo does the same, though not with interpol and only local government.
Complete and unrestricted access, following a court order, to the data they have access to, this does not include the contents of your emails or the files in your drive, which are e2ee.
Last time I read about something like that was them giving away an email address iirc.
They are only e2ee if you enable it. Posteo has it enabled from the get go.
Only to the data they have access to, which isn't much as pretty much everything is E2EE and logging is minimal or in many cases non-existent.
And "I won't support any company that complies with the law" is certainly a take.
Source on that? Genuinely asking.
None, because it didn't happen.
The police wanted information about an account, so Proton gave them everything they had, which was the recovery email address. That's it.
The source is that this is missing from their data protection.