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0 pointsdrivebycomment4y ago0 comments

> This is patently false. The first thing they could have done is not hosted their service in a jurisdiction susceptible to these kinds of logging requests, at least not openly. In other words, they could have concealed the location of their services.

Where is that ? Which country doesn't have a law that allows authorities to request such information ? I'm not aware of any, at least not among any sufficiently developed countries with useful infrastructures.

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Ansil8494y ago

You appear to have missed a significant portion of my post:

> at least not openly. In other words, they could have concealed the location of their services.

> Instead, ProtonMail is attempting to have their cake and eat it too: on the one hand, they repeatedly publicize the fact that they have 'Swiss privacy laws' as a selling point, but yet on the other hand when a privacy violation such as this occurs, they claim that their hands are tied because of....Swiss laws.

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