Technology

Journalists, activists and even lawyers on the side of activists should always use something like Tails. No matter what companies like Proton promise or what the law in the country they operate in says.

https://tails.net/

Those who used it imagined Swiss law to be less intrusive? I suppose it sounds like a good idea to anyone, which is mostly everyone, who doesn't know Swiss law.

Yeah, they rolled over to the authority, as expected. But, they sold themselves as "private", not "private up to the extent of Swiss law, and our laws here are very intrusive, so really the private part isn't going to get anyone very far if they use this service for anything slightly questionable, let alone outright illegal. You might as well be using GMail for how 'private' this thing is."

I unironically said this in my group chat, "proton mail is becoming more and more sketchy as being a privacy focused mail service" just like how signal is becoming more sketchy as a instant message service. There are things proton mail does such as logging activity that shouldn't be the case as a paying customer, and yet here we are. When I request privacy I want it to be private, as in don't give my data to anyone. it seems for that to happen it must be community driven and decentralized.

All these people relying on a private corporation for privacy have a serious screw loose.

Proton fully cooperates with all government requests. They are just another tech company selling "privacy" to make a buck. The only people who care are those foolish enough to give them their money.