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Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain
(restoreprivacy.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Doesn't look like Proton did anything wrong, they can't fight these requests and he was caught by identifying information he linked to his account.
They could disclose the fact that they might need to give that info to authorities and warn users of that.
They never mention it here for example https://proton.me/blog/protonmail-threat-model
They do mention it on that page:
The only ever claim to encrypt message contents and attachments. And explicitly call out account meta data here as something they can hand over if requested by law enforcement. They also mention they are not good vs targeted and governmental level attacks:
And explicitly mention they might be compelled to log and give up information like ip adresses:
https://proton.me/legal/law-enforcement
Here the mention clearly the data mentioned in the privacy policy which in turns clearly states that you MAY provide a recovery account which will be associated with your account. I also think that anybody that should be concerned for this should understand that law enforcement can get ALL the data the company has on you.
It's basic common sense. I understand that some people simply don't have any.