Privacy giants are pushing back hard against the proposed Lawful Access Act

• Proton VPN has hit back at Canada’s proposed Bill C-22

• The proposed legislation could require VPNs to log user metadata

• NordVPN and Windscribe have also slammed the bill

  • tomalley8342@lemmy.worldEnglish
    472·
    1 day ago

    Based on what happened with their e-mail, I imagine if the courts mandated IP logging for VPNs, Proton would still advertise their no-logs policy until they get caught out in a scandal and then silently update their marketing material & privacy policy afterwards. lol

    ProtonMail 2018:

    Now, Swiss courts have never tried to force us to log IPs, and the law is not completely clearly if we have to comply or not. If we got such a request, we would probably fight it just to test this out.

    Did they ever end up fighting anything out? lol

    • Ashrakal@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      I doubt they did - they only speak up for the fictional customer, meanwhile silently complying to whatever government requests user data from them.

      • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
        71·
        1 day ago

        They still don‘t log your IP and advocate to not even give them your data, though. If you give them your credit card number and then use their services to sell illegal substances and if authorities of your country then find your e-mail address and contact Proton about it then their hands are pretty much tied. If you use one of their offered anonymous ways to pay for their services then there is nothing they can give authorities. Ultimately it‘s your job to take care of your identity and Proton offers ways to protect it.

        • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
          22·
          18 hours ago

          You should contact Proton and tell them they need to rewrite their homepage.

          We are a neutral and safe haven for your personal data, committed to defending your freedom.

          Our technology and business are based upon this fundamentally stronger definition of privacy, backed also by Swiss privacy laws.

          Proton is based in Switzerland, and your data does not go to the cloud. Instead, it stays under the protection of some of the world’s strongest privacy laws.