Protonmail has turned over its activist users to French authorities.
ProtonMail furnished details regarding the account’s creation date, IP addresses linked to the account, and the gadgets employed to log into the account.
Per Register.com’s report, ProtonMail revealed the IP addresses of some of its French users involved with the environmental group Youth for Climate. The information was
Simultaneously, ProtonMail's confidentiality guidelines affirm that the firm “doesn’t retain IP logs as a standard” and “no private details are needed to establish a secure email account.”
ProtonMail reacted with a “it’s not the same” approach, specifying that IP addresses are still gathered, “though not by default,” instead following Swiss regulations, where the corporation controlling the platform is based and houses its servers. A request to unveil data pertaining to the email account utilized by the activists for correspondence was conveyed by France to Europol, and subsequently to Switzerland, who then mandated the transmission of this data.
Confronted with demands from Swiss officials, ProtonMail supplied particulars concerning the date the account was generated, the related IP addresses, and the hardware employed to gain access to the account.
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Subsequent to delivering the demanded data, French officials apprehended Youth for Climate participants.
