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ProtonMail provides information used to identify email owner...
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You do realize that you don't get time, generally speaking, to delete things, when a government legally demands your info, right?
As soon as any company sees a lawful order demanding information, deleting it becomes a crime.
If this same thing happened to mailbox.org, you heard about it immediately, and hit all the delete buttons you can find, mailbox.org will still hand over your info to them, as they're legally obligated to do so. It's not a gdpr violation or anything like that.
You’re not understanding. It’s a preemptive option.
You're not understanding. They can order whenever.
And the Germans don’t give a fuck.
Their transparency report says otherwise...
Ok, whatevs keep shilling for proton.
They’re not shilling for Proton you’re just not understanding that using Mailbox will not protect you from what happened with Proton in the article.
the germans share intelligence with US agencies. you're more likely to have your data given to the US government if your email provider is in germany than you are if they are most other places in europe.
they also keep trying to pass laws to force all tech companies to backdoor encryption in germany. when that happens, your data would be safer literally anywhere else, including currently the US.
That sucks
It's preemptive for when you DIE. That's why in the screenshot you sent it says "in the event of my death", not "if the government comes knocking, violate the law and delete my data first".
You can delete your data from Proton, too, but the payment information, which was how this person was identified, is stored regardless by their third-party payment provider.
Mailbox only erases your payment info 4 weeks after you've last paid, and ended your contract with them, and they use Ayden for payments, which also has no set date at which they'll delete your payment information.