alt Hacker Newsi can’t speak for the journalists who wrote the story, but i assume it’s due to how prominently proton markets their email as safe/private/encrypted and then it turns out they may be sharing data with the swiss government who then gives it to the us government.
it absolutely should be news when the company who heavily promoted themselves to normies as safe, encrypted, and private is sharing customers data which is ending up in the hands of authoritarian foreign governments who are hunting for protesters.
> Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester
This is a highly deceptive title. As if Proton proactively helped FBI, which is not even close to truth. Proton is not even in direct contact with FBI. It's Swiss government that forwarded the info to FBI.
A much better title would be:
Proton Mail Payment Info Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester
Or
FBI Unmasked Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester via Proton Mail Payment Info
The point is informing the normies that your payment info is linked to your identity and a potential risk to your anonymity.
That clickbaity title makes me want to unsubscribe from their RSS feed.
> then it turns out they may be sharing data with the swiss government who then gives it to the us government.
Literally every legal business complies to law enforcement. They have to.