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.
Proton chooses to retain data associating accounts with personal information from credit card payments, and they choose to advertise Swiss legal jurisdiction as a privacy feature.
given that Swiss law means complying with MLAT requests from many countries including the US, why do you think Proton chooses to retain data linking user accounts with payment identities?
if you stick a privacy fence up around your house, does it make you anonymous? of course not, because privacy does not mean anonymous. you should not blame someone else because you are confused on the difference between privacy and anonymity.
i am not confused at all about “the difference between privacy and anonymity”; the former is a broader concept which includes the latter. Privacy regarding one’s identity (or avoiding revealing the link between related identities, which is what is usually meant by “anonymity”) is one of many types of privacy.
Proton mail advertises that their service is designed for “privacy”, not “privacy except not with regards to your legal identity which we decided to needlessly retain information about and which you should obviously expect us to give to the authorities upon request”.
where did you get the notion that “privacy” excludes “anonymity”? this is not a rhetorical question, i am interested to know because I see these “difference between privacy and anonymity” comments frequently lately and i wonder where this meme originated.
Proton chooses to retain data associating accounts with personal information from credit card payments, and they choose to advertise Swiss legal jurisdiction as a privacy feature.
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given that Swiss law means complying with MLAT requests from many countries including the US, why do you think Proton chooses to retain data linking user accounts with payment identities?
i am not confused at all about “the difference between privacy and anonymity”; the former is a broader concept which includes the latter. Privacy regarding one’s identity (or avoiding revealing the link between related identities, which is what is usually meant by “anonymity”) is one of many types of privacy.
Proton mail advertises that their service is designed for “privacy”, not “privacy except not with regards to your legal identity which we decided to needlessly retain information about and which you should obviously expect us to give to the authorities upon request”.
where did you get the notion that “privacy” excludes “anonymity”? this is not a rhetorical question, i am interested to know because I see these “difference between privacy and anonymity” comments frequently lately and i wonder where this meme originated.