Quote:The privacy-hugging, end-to-end encryption-providing email provider ProtonMail was forced to log the IP address of a French activist and turn it over to Europol, according to a French police report that came to light over the weekend. The activist was arrested as a result.
In the wake of the news, users have been pelting the company with questions, in spite of ProtonMail swearing up and down that it doesn’t log IP addresses by default and that it only complies with local regulations – in this case, Swiss law. [...]
Quote:Andy Yen, ProtonMail founder and CEO, on Sunday posted a statement about the incident to Reddit and followed up with a Monday blog post.
Read more: ProtonMail Forced to Log IP Address of French Activist | Threatpost
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