Those who used it imagined Swiss law to be less intrusive? I suppose it sounds like a good idea to anyone, which is mostly everyone, who doesn’t know Swiss law.
Yeah, they rolled over to the authority, as expected. But, they sold themselves as “private”, not “private up to the extent of Swiss law, and our laws here are very intrusive, so really the private part isn’t going to get anyone very far if they use this service for anything slightly questionable, let alone outright illegal. You might as well be using GMail for how ‘private’ this thing is.”
The popular myth is that Swiss privacy law is so strong that banks can hide gold and profits for major criminals. It wasn’t to Proton’s benefit to correct that.
It is called deception. All email providers in Switzerland have to follow Swiss Privacy laws.
This is no different than companies advertising licensed and bonded when every company legally has been licensed and bonded. Note that this practice of advertising what is required by law is actually illegal in a lot of places.
They sold a convenient lie and got rich doing so. Now we get to sit here on Lemmy and watch them try to justify another corporation shiting on them while they give them more money. The Proton defenders are a special kind of stupid.
Those who used it imagined Swiss law to be less intrusive? I suppose it sounds like a good idea to anyone, which is mostly everyone, who doesn’t know Swiss law.
Yeah, they rolled over to the authority, as expected. But, they sold themselves as “private”, not “private up to the extent of Swiss law, and our laws here are very intrusive, so really the private part isn’t going to get anyone very far if they use this service for anything slightly questionable, let alone outright illegal. You might as well be using GMail for how ‘private’ this thing is.”
The popular myth is that Swiss privacy law is so strong that banks can hide gold and profits for major criminals. It wasn’t to Proton’s benefit to correct that.
It is called deception. All email providers in Switzerland have to follow Swiss Privacy laws.
This is no different than companies advertising licensed and bonded when every company legally has been licensed and bonded. Note that this practice of advertising what is required by law is actually illegal in a lot of places.
They sold a convenient lie and got rich doing so. Now we get to sit here on Lemmy and watch them try to justify another corporation shiting on them while they give them more money. The Proton defenders are a special kind of stupid.