Everyone hating on @ProtonPrivacy and saying to cancel subscriptions is missing the point entirely. This case actually proves how powerful Proton Mail is, not the opposite. Europol brought a court order to Proton, and the most Proton could provide was the user's recovery email address (which obviously Proton has to be able to see to send recovery emails). If the suspect had used Apple or Google for email and Europol had gone to Apple or Google, they would have disclosed their entire email history among many other details. The vital difference with Proton is that they built an architecture that minimizes the amount of data they have on any user for privacy reasons. That architecture was proven in this case, not disproven. If you have an extremely targeted threat model (i.e. you are a dissident or activist), simply do the following: 1⃣ Don't link any recovery contact info 2⃣ Use a non-Proton VPN or Tor when accessing Proton Mail. P.S. - no company is going to go to jail for your $5/mo throwaway email account. But all companies should limit the info they have on users like Proton has done.

Everyone hating on @ProtonPrivacy and saying to cancel subscriptions is missing the point entirely. This case actually proves how powerful Proton Mail is, not the opposite. Europol brought a court order to Proton, and the most Proton could provide was the user's recovery email address (which obviously Proton has to be able to see to send recovery emails). If the suspect had used Apple or Google for email and Europol had gone to Apple or Google, they would have disclosed their entire email history among many other details. The vital difference with Proton is that they built an architecture that minimizes the amount of data they have on any user for privacy reasons. That architecture was proven in this case, not disproven. If you have an extremely targeted threat model (i.e. you are a dissident or activist), simply do the following: 1⃣ Don't link any recovery contact info 2⃣ Use a non-Proton VPN or Tor when accessing Proton Mail. P.S. - no company is going to go to jail for your $5/mo throwaway email account. But all companies should limit the info they have on users like Proton has done.