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[–] Fazoo@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not more than the Swiss. Germany is part of the spy dragnet. It does not offer the same level of privacy protection.

[–] palebluedot@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Five and eleven eyes doesn't matter if the service is encrypted and open sourced. Also, did you know that Switzerland has no superior privacy laws comparing to Germany? It's all marketing bluff.

[–] Postis2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah so true proton had to hand out information to authorites

[–] Fazoo@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A single IP address, which would mean nothing with VPN use. Germany is literally part of the spying eyes. That is the difference here. Proton giving out one address vs the surveillance network of a NATO state?... Lol

[–] Postis2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ok? It does not matter LOL other states authorites can ask swis for information like what happend with the activist. Vpns are not private lol. You probably use your email for personal things like this lemmy account and you probably don't use a vpn with it all the time so your email is already linked to you. Email is defenetly not private and was never made to be. If vpns are so private why is tor a thing?