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The clause about no IP address tracking has been removed from the agreement.
The encrypted email service ProtonMail made changes to the user agreement after the scandal with the arrest of the activist. As a reminder, ProtonMail has disclosed the IP addresses of a number of its French users associated with the green youth movement Youth for Climate. The data was provided at the request of the French authorities, after which these users were arrested.
The company's website previously claimed that the service "by default does not maintain IP logs that could be associated with an anonymous email account." Now that clause has been replaced with the following: “ProtonMail is an email that respects privacy and puts people (not advertisers) first. Your data belongs to you and our encryption guarantees that. We also provide an anonymous mail gateway. "
In addition, a new addition has appeared in the service's privacy policy: "If you are in violation of Swiss law, ProtonMail may be legally obliged to register your IP address as part of a criminal investigation."
How the Swiss company ProtonMail is obliged to obey the laws of the country and respond to law enforcement inquiries, although it is unclear why the company stored the user-agent and IP address strings.
There is an option in the ProtonMail user interface to enable access logging, but whether the arrested activist used it is currently unknown.
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The encrypted email service ProtonMail made changes to the user agreement after the scandal with the arrest of the activist. As a reminder, ProtonMail has disclosed the IP addresses of a number of its French users associated with the green youth movement Youth for Climate. The data was provided at the request of the French authorities, after which these users were arrested.
The company's website previously claimed that the service "by default does not maintain IP logs that could be associated with an anonymous email account." Now that clause has been replaced with the following: “ProtonMail is an email that respects privacy and puts people (not advertisers) first. Your data belongs to you and our encryption guarantees that. We also provide an anonymous mail gateway. "
In addition, a new addition has appeared in the service's privacy policy: "If you are in violation of Swiss law, ProtonMail may be legally obliged to register your IP address as part of a criminal investigation."
How the Swiss company ProtonMail is obliged to obey the laws of the country and respond to law enforcement inquiries, although it is unclear why the company stored the user-agent and IP address strings.
There is an option in the ProtonMail user interface to enable access logging, but whether the arrested activist used it is currently unknown.
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