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Proton Mail is the world's largest secure email provider. Swiss, end-to-end encrypted, private, and free.
Proton VPN is the world’s only open-source, publicly audited, unlimited and free VPN. Swiss-based, no-ads, and no-logs.
Proton Calendar is the world's first end-to-end encrypted calendar that allows you to keep your life private.
Proton Drive is a free end-to-end encrypted cloud storage that allows you to securely backup and share your files. It's open source, publicly audited, and Swiss-based.
Proton Pass Proton Pass is a free and open-source password manager which brings a higher level of security with rigorous end-to-end encryption of all data (including usernames, URLs, notes, and more) and email alias support.
SimpleLogin lets you send and receive emails anonymously via easily-generated unique email aliases.
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Complying with government data requests is NOT the same as collecting information for profit. A company cannot just decide to not comply with the local laws where they sell their products, or else they would risk getting banned in that country. Proton just like signal or any secure service will have to provide all of the requested info they have on you when demanded to. The point of using Proton and other secure services is that the actual important information (contents of your emails, drive elements, etc.) are encrypted, so even if they give the information, it will be useless. Proton isn't sold as an anonymity service, but as a secure one. I've seen this whole debate and from the beginning it's been stupid and uninformed takes that criticize just to criticize without any understanding of how being present in a foreign market works
This is technically true, but... The privacy oriented person will drift towards products that cannot violate their privacy. Or, if that is not possible, towards products that push back against orders that are unlawful or unethical.
When Andy Yen and Proton Official published their multiple social media comments, this looked dangerously close to signaling fealty to a foreign government, which is not something I am interested in seeing.