Proton was legally ordered by the Swiss justice department to hand over the (severely limited) information about a law breaking organization's account. They had paid for Proton using a credit card instead of the anonymous payment methods Proton offers, and that is what Proton was forced to hand over. It was the organization's bad OpSec, not Proton willingly deanonymizing users.

Some people in the comment section are really dumb switching to other alternatives thinking that Proton isn't trustworthy because they gave the information despite the organisation not using anonymous currency. What's ironic is that some of these people are switching to those alternatives where you can't even use anonymous currency.

Also, kind of a clickbait title.

Proton's response

They gave payment data to the authorities, because, guess what, they HAVE to provide whatever is subpoenaed. Did they provide emails, IP addresses? Doesn't say any of that. There's the option of paying with crypto, but the imbeciles that know they are going to be at risk of being found, paid with a credit or debit card.

404 media is more of the same sensationalism laden bullshit out there. Make a fucking Strom out of a drop of water.

Use monero.

just really sad to call yourself a privacy company and then feed your customer to the gestapo

people can end up as embarrassing footnotes in history a number of different ways, but being a dishonest coward company in the privacy sphere is basically speedrunning it

ITT people who believe you have to comply with government orders and call themselves anarchists

article in case you can't read it: lemmy.ml/post/44086795 edit: better link in a reply.

proton coulda put up a fight, a loud one, for optics sake if nothing else. rolling over on any (and by implication, all) request should be the last straw in their long line of snafus; by way of "death by a thousand cuts", I would never entrust them with anything of importance.

signal demonstrated that you could decouple payment info from user data and a shop that touts the privacy part of their offerings coulda at least mimic such a thing.

edit 2: fuck any and all pay-with-crypto shills and the horse they rode in on.

They have a .onion site. Use it always.

Oh boy, their man fawning over Trump is aging like fine milk.

Proton the company that prides itself protecting privacy when it is literally the law of the country they are in. It is like a cabby advertising that they have license and insurance.