alt Hacker News> Didn't Proton already say that they were physically relocating their servers outside of Switzerland because the Swiss government couldn't be trusted?
They said they want to relocate to Germany which I would say in a polite way, is much worse in this regard.
In what sense? Germany has among the strongest judicial oversight for invasion of privacy in Europe. Due process is followed when securing search warrants that provide access to subscriber data (Germany does not have administrative subpoenas like in the US and other countries).
Former attempts at surveillance have been struck down in the Bundesverfassungsgericht, and the right to privacy has even been affirmed for foreigners (as opposed to other countries like the US that reserve that foreign nationals have zero due process rights for invasion of privacy).