This isn't exactly a surprise and is more a reflection of modern law enforcement than protonmail's services. The data they divulge is metadata and this is only because as a company they must conform the the laws of the region in which they are based.
As a result of Swiss law and Protonmail's own design this whole situation gets blown out into the open with unusual levels of transparency. The takeaway is not that protonmail is not-exempt, but rather that companies do have flexibility in how they respond to this type of situation. This applies to company policy and technical design of the service. If this situation occured here in the USA with a gmail user you might never know it happened at all. -Ben ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Monday, September 6th, 2021 at 1:15 PM, Russell Senior <[email protected]> wrote: > Saw this referred to on tweetar this morning, and looked it up: > > https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-address-of-french-activist-after-order-by-swiss-authorities/
