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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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ProtonMail Complied with 5,957 Data Requests in 2022 - Still Secure and Private? (restoreprivacy.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Napain@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Swiss law does allow complying with VPN services afaik.

ProtonVPN and ProtonMail are completely seperate too.

[–] sqgl@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Do you mean the law doesn't allow forcing the VPN service to comply with VPN log requests by authorities?

And what do you mean by "completely separate"?

Proton VPN... is operated by the Swiss company Proton AG, the company behind the email service Proton Mail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_VPN

[–] Romain_Ty@piaille.fr 4 points 10 months ago

@sqgl @ReakDuck
From what I understood :
Under Swiss laws, VPN providers are not forced to log anything.
They also can't comply with orders coming from a foreign country if not approved by Swiss authorities.
If someone is put under surveillance, he/she have to know that.

However, always remind that that's just the law, not what is technically possible. If you're considered as a real threat for an important country, neither Switzerland or any country will protect you.