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Mise à jour : en octobre 2021, Proton a remporté une décision d’un tribunal
suisse établissant que les services de messagerie électronique ne sont pas des
fournisseurs de télécommunications. Par conséquent, les services de messagerie
ne sont pas soum
Proton Mail was founded in 2014 to build a better internet where privacy is the
default, and to protect activists, journalists, and ordinary people from online
surveillance. We are activists ourselves, and over the years we have supported
movements a
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We are proud and humbled to announce that Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a fellow former
scientist from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the
inventor of the World Wide Web, will be joining Proton’s advisory board.
Our vision is to bui
Update: In October 2021, Proton won a Swiss court ruling that email services are
not telecommunications providers. Consequently, email services are not subject
to the data retention requirements imposed on telecommunications providers and
are exempte
At Proton, we believe everyone should be in control of their personal data. A
critical component of controlling your data is having the ability to make
informed decisions about who you entrust with your data and how it is secured.
Most companies rely
On May 26, 2021, an email sent to the Minsk airport was made public by
investigative journalists working with dossier.center. The email in question was
not leaked or obtained from Proton Mail.
As an encrypted email service, we do not have the abili
- Proton news
In May 2014, we created Proton Mail on the premise that an internet where
privacy is the default is essential to building a better world. On the 7th
anniversary of the founding of Proton Mail, we wanted to take a moment to
reflect and thank everyone
- Proton news
Over the past year, a lot has happened that we have not always been able to
share on our blog due to all the work going on. Recently, we have been focused
on building a completely new version of Proton Mail for web and mobile (which
you can preview a
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We’re happy to announce that, with your support, the 2020 Lifetime account
auction and raffle raised approximately $300,000 for good causes around the
world!
The three Lifetime accounts that we auctioned went for about $14,500 each, while
15,348 ra
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- Proton news
On Nov. 19, we asked you which organizations our community should support with
our 2020 Lifetime account auction and raffle. We received hundreds of excellent
suggestions, and after carefully considering where our contribution would be
most effective
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UPDATE Dec. 1, 2020: Given the number of user suggestions, we will announce
which organizations we selected and begin the Lifetime account auction and
raffle the week of Dec. 7.
For the past two years, we have auctioned three Proton Lifetime account