Privacy Basics

- Privacy Basics
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

Email is full of private, personal, and everyday data. Letters to friends and
colleagues, shopping receipts, calendar events, flight confirmations: email is a
continuous stream of data. From days to decades, that everyday data adds up and
tells a sto

- Privacy Basics
From the creation of the Android mobile operating system to powering the first
interplanetary helicopter, open-source projects have been critical to the
development of new technologies. In a recent survey of enterprise developers,
85% already use ope

Passwords are designed to protect one thing: your online security. Weak
passwords pose a serious threat to your online security — once a hacker gains
access to your online accounts, they can impersonate you online, steal your
financial data, or sell

- Privacy Basics
Email is a great way to stay connected with the people and organizations you
care about, but it is also a technology prone to data breaches and cyberattacks.
In 2017, the email provider Yahoo revealed that over three billion user accounts
were compro

- Privacy Basics
Since email was invented, it has become a crucial form of communication in our
private and professional lives. Even with the growing popularity of other
communication platforms, such as instant messaging and video conferencing, email
continues to hol

- Privacy Basics
若要暢遊網路世界,人們必須擁有電郵地址。要註冊成為YouTube、Facebook、Twitter、Reddit
用戶或使用其他線上服務,電郵都是您必填的資訊。電郵也是是我們辦理網銀業務、購物和進行商業交易的首要溝通媒介。因此,全球有超過一半的成年人是電子郵件用戶,人們也在電郵中提供了大量的個人資訊。
然而,電郵並不像大家所認知的那樣安全或私密。
電郵具有互通性,例如 Gmail 帳戶可以與 Yahoo 帳戶通信,Yahoo 帳戶可以與 Proton Mail 帳戶通信。
遺憾的是,這也意味著

- Privacy Basics
You need an email address to exist at all in the online world. Signing up for
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, or any other online service requires one.
It’s also our go-to method of communication for online banking, purchasing, and
business deals

- Privacy Basics
This post was updated on December 9, 2022
Learn about the best apps like WhatsApp that ensure your online chat remains
private.
Tens of millions of WhatsApp users have flocked to more private messaging apps
ever since the app revealed it shares per

- Privacy Basics
Proton Mail was created to help build a more free and open internet that puts
people first. This makes it a great Gmail alternative for those who value
privacy and security. Founded by scientists who met at CERN, Proton Mail
protects all messages wit

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From Hong Kong to Minneapolis, protesters around the world are standing up for
their human rights. The right to peaceful assembly and protest are bedrocks of
democracy, and we support everyone’s ability to exercise these rights. We
created Proton Mai