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Your passwords are some of your most sensitive personal information. They’re the
keys that allow you to access your online accounts, be it your cloud storage,
email inbox, or banking accounts. Proton Pass helps millions of people safeguard
their pass
In recent months, we’ve brought a lot of big additions to the Proton ecosystem,
such as Proton VPN for Business, Proton Sentinel, Password Sharing in Proton
Pass, and Proton Drive photo backups in beta. By comparison, we haven’t said a
lot about Prot
- Privacy basics
Most email addresses use the default domain provided by their email service. For
Proton Mail accounts, it’s proton.me. For Gmail, it’s gmail.com. These are
usually free and work just fine for most people.
But there are situations where it makes sens
Cloud storage is a critical piece of our mission to build an internet that
protects your privacy and secures your data. It’s where you keep your most
sensitive files, from personal photos to identity documents. Unfortunately, the
leading cloud storag
- Privacy basics
Putting a password on your folders is a great way to protect sensitive files
while they’re on your system. It’s pretty easy to do regardless of your
operating system, and this article will take you through each step.
Note though, that password prote
- Privacy basics
Encryption is a way to hide information so private data is kept that way.
Without encryption, anybody could access your communications. In this article,
we go over how it works and some of the different types of encryption there are.
The short expla
Today, the European Parliament voted on the regulation commonly known as “chat
control”, laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse material.
Earlier drafts of this bill had posed a severe threat to encryption and privacy,
but recent
- Privacy news
On October 26, the UK Parliament passed the Online Safety Act, giving Ofcom, the
UK’s telecoms regulator, broad powers to search for, find, and suppress harmful
media and speech by scanning the internet and, despite widespread condemnation
from the t
- Privacy basics
Dropbox is one of the biggest names in cloud storage, which is why you might be
surprised to learn it doesn’t use the most secure encryption algorithms and
doesn’t protect your privacy.
While Dropbox is secure from outside attack, it has suffered da
- Privacy basics
Like most browsers, Microsoft Edge has a built-in password manager. Can you
trust it, though? Is Microsoft Edge password manager safe?
Overall, while Microsoft Edge password manager seems safe at first, there are
some issues with the way it handles
- Proton news
Each year since 2018, the Proton community has raised funds to support
nonprofits that align with our mission through our Lifetime Account Charity
Fundraiser. With your support, we’ve donated around $2 million to organizations
working to build a bett