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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester (archive.ph)
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A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the FBI.

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[–] Bronstein_Tardigrade@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 days ago

"...going to engage in illegal activity." Protesting Stop Cop City is supposed to be protected activity in the US, so not illegal. They arrested a group supplying bail money to arrested protestors under the Rico Act, so it was the government and FBI carrying out the illegal activities. This is one of the myriad of reasons Proton plans to move their operations out of Switzerland to German.