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“So @ProtonMail received a legal request from Europol through Swiss authorities to provide information about Youth for Climate action in Paris, they provided the IP address and information on the type of device used to the police https://t.co/KtKF4wn3wv”
  • blank_sl8@lemmy.ml
    8·
    3 years ago

    Even if their were, proton company would have been legally required to trace their connection through proton VPN. Using tor would have been the better move.

    EDIT: apparently swiss laws exempt VPNs from these sorts of legal issues.

    • riccardo@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 years ago

      Would they? According to their recent blogpost about the controversy:

      1. Under current Swiss law, email and VPN are treated differently, and ProtonVPN cannot be compelled to log user data.

      …just pasting their claims. If this is true, using a Swiss based, no-logging VPN would be enough to avoid your IP being revealed