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news media claims Proton mail helped FBI unmask anonymous stop cop city protestors:
(www.404media.co)
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2026
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Probably.
If the FBI had a proper warrent from a judge, and convinced the Swiss court it's all good. Then yah, the Swiss ask for the data, Proton will absolutely hand it over. They follow Swiss law. The real content is all encrypted, but the metadata isn't.
In this case they matched the email address with the guys credit card.