Proton Mail came under scrutiny for its role in a legal request by the Spanish authorities leading to the identification and arrest of a user.
They always complied with legal court orders, as all companies do. It just highlights the fundamental issue with email as a protocol.
This has nothing to do with email as a protocol. The court order discussed in the article asked for the recovery email address of an account. No actual email data was transferred.
I wonder what the authorities could use the recovery email for? Did they gain access to the Protonmail through the recovery email?
Recovery email was tied to Apple, so they asked Apple to private the data they needed. No email content was shared at any point from Proton.
Man. Apple is really terrible here.
The requests were made under the guise of anti-terrorism laws, despite the primary activities of the Democratic Tsunami involving protests and roadblocks, which raises questions about the proportionality and justification of such measures.
Since Proton complied, it means there was enough there for Swiss courts to agree. All requests are subject to Switzerland laws.
