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by protonmail
897 days ago
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Proton analyzed this revelation and found it doesn't impact Proton users due to the way that Proton's encryption and infrastructure works.
While the reported practices have long been legalized in the US and Germany, they are very likely illegal in Switzerland and are therefore subject to legal challenge. It would not be entirely surprising if this got overturned by the courts. For example, Proton won a similar court case in 2021 (https://proton.me/blog/court-strengthens-email-privacy). Deeper analysis on these revelations can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1930vnh/comment.... |
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Mass surveillance without reason ("Anlasslose Vorratsdatenspeicherung") is illegal in the EU (and Germany), just like it hopefully is in Switzerland. But declaring a law illegal takes time, so Germany simply creates a new law to continue their mass surveillance until courts declare it illegal again.
So I don't know how mass surveillance being likely illegal in Switzerland changes much. Until today it wasn't even publicly known that mass surveillance is a thing in Switzerland, and I won't be surprised if a similar story will make news in a decade again.
German: https://netzpolitik.org/2023/bundesverwaltungsgericht-vorrat...
English: https://www.reuters.com/technology/indiscriminate-data-reten...