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Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain (restoreprivacy.com)

submitted 4 months ago by schizoidman@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 58 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Logically, any service, whether private or not, is required by law to reveal the user data they have, if there is a court order for a criminal investigation. Proton cannot refuse, if it does not want to face a complaint that could even lead to the closure of its service. That is, in this headline the "Proton Mail" can be replaced by any other email, host, chat, social network, VPN, Lemmy, it can occur in any of them. As said, read TOS and PP of what you use

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml -3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

except they told users in the past that they dont have this informaion

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 months ago

They don't have information about the content of the mails, but same as any other mail provider the account data and the IP, this is the data which they can provide to the police. The rest are informations from the ISP and from own investigations of the police itself. Because of this the title that "Proton discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain" is somewhat sensationalist.

[–] FutileRecipe@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Out of curiosity, can you link where Proton said they don't have the user's recovery email, that the users themselves attached to their Proton account?