https://protonmail.com/privacy-policy
They also provide a report of all warrants received https://protonmail.com/blog/transparency-report/
And even on their English website, the marketing is misleading. They say that the service is "anonymous" and also: "By default, we do not keep any IP logs which can be linked to your anonymous email account".
https://twitter.com/andyyen/status/1434600373059297284
"As described in the link above, under Swiss law, we can be forced to collect info on accounts belonging to users under criminal investigation. This is obviously not done by default, but only if we get a legal order."
Activists beware.
Weird definition of privacy we've got going these days
Also: One more reason NAT was a good thing over IPv6. The closer we get to the platonic ideal of "UUID per person" the more likely justice systems will use it that way.
The day everyone learns how to self-host mail on ephemeral compute instances is the day law enforcement starts requiring MX domain logs to be maintained in a historical manner. Work around that magically, and some law'll go on the books to try to tame the super spooky criminal communicators hiding from law enforcement.
This is why we can't have nice things.
https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-mr-robot-secure-email...
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> Liam, October 14, 2015 at 10:30 PM
> But https://protonmail.com/security-details page says “No tracking or logging of personally identifiable information. Unlike competing services, we do not save any tracking information. We do not record metadata such as the IP addresses used to log into accounts.” So, now it turns to be that you introduced tracking and logging? Is this data encrypted as well?
> Admin, October 17, 2015 at 9:14 PM
> We don’t save any of this data by default, the user must explicitly turn it on for us to save it.
There should be a reasonable assumption that given they have end-to-end encryption for the service, they just encrypt the logging for the user and store it encrypted without the key themselves like they do the emails.
Also to note, they at least have an onion link to use their email service.
> No personal information is required to create your secure email account. By default, we do not keep any IP logs which can be linked to your anonymous email account. Your privacy comes first.
Except your phone number? That's highly personal. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28428092
(I recall encountering this too when creating an account a few months ago.)
