Proton freezes Swiss investment over surveillance fears
Proton, the Geneva-based encrypted email provider founded 11 years ago by three scientist who met at CERN, will freeze its investments in Switzerland, its chief executive Andy Yen told Le Temps on Wed
That's why my email provider is in Norway and not Switzerland. Norway has much stronger privacy laws.
What? Police can "subpoena" whatever the fuck they want. ISPs must log and keep them for years. Will share with allied intelligence services and Interpol. Never thought of Norwegian privacy laws as particularly strong..
The article states that Proton plans to move certain (AI) data centers to Germany and Norway, as they seemed those the most sensitive. I can imagine if these laws/policies are enacted, they would look to move all services.
Well, Proton can move wherever they want and be as good as they what, I'll never be a customer again because of what their fuckhead CEO Andy Yen said.
I don't care that he's backpedaled, I don't care that Andy Yen isn't Proton-the-company, and I'm even willing to accept it was a very unfortunate duh moment on his part. Here the thing: I don't have many ways as a nobody to get back at Trump, but one way is to not give any of my money to anybody who enabled him, even by mistake.
So Proton is on my shitlist forever thanks to Yen.
I think the reason is not sensitivity, but that it's less risky to move a very new, niche service if they fuck it up somehow. as I understood their announcement they may move other services too later on
Oh, thanks for making me aware of this. I've never heard of them despite living in Norway
Shows that the only true end to end encryption is when the sender and recipient do the encrypting/decrypting locally. Even then, it requires both ends not to be compromised.