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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Proton has handed over 32,076 users' data to governments since 2017. Their own transparency report states a 94% compliance rate in 2024. (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] cl4p_tp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't get why people think that any company for that matter would go to jail for a random dude online. They do hand over metadata and everything else is encrypted. Not even Proton can access that data. When served with a court order they have to hand it over. Now if it were GMail, they'd probably make a collage with your pics and share them. That's the difference.

[–] bob@feddit.uk 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Don't collect data and there's nothing to handover https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-search-warrant-customer-data-not-compromised

[–] cl4p_tp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Basically comparing apples to oranges. Mullvad just does one thing or maybe two if you include the browser. Proton operates on a different scale. There's going to be some data generated if you expect to use the whole suite without running into issues. I'll accept your argument when mullvad operates on a similar scale with the same opsec.

[–] bob@feddit.uk 1 points 15 hours ago

I'm not buying 'they need data cos they offer more products'. The companies have made different choices in how they build their software.