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UPDATE Sept 23, 2023: On Sept. 18, members of the US House of Representatives
and Senate introduced the Banning Surveillance Advertising Act, which would
prohibit advertising networks and facilitators from using protected class
information, such as r
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At Proton, we have always stood for an internet that protects privacy, enables
freedom, and serves the interests of everyone. We have consistently spoken out
against recent anti-encryption efforts and worked to preserve privacy while
making the inter
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Over the past two weeks, Microsoft clients using its Exchange servers, which
includes tens of thousands of government agencies and private corporations
around the world, have fallen victim to a series of hacks that have compromised
their data. The br
In December 2020, The Council of the European Union released a five-page
resolution that called for the EU to pass new rules to govern the use of
end-to-end encryption in Europe. We strongly oppose this resolution because it
foreshadows an attack on
Just a handful of massive companies, with wealth greater than some countries,
controls almost every aspect of the internet. They can decide which voices to
amplify or silence, which businesses to boost or crush (or acquire), and what
personal data th
Facebook, the owner of WhatsApp, has forced an ultimatum upon WhatsApp’s users:
share future transactional data and metadata from the end-to-end encrypted
messenger with Facebook, or lose access to your WhatsApp account.
Users are being informed of
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According to a survey of 2,070 UK adults, roughly 90% of Brits are worried about
their online data remaining private, but 20% don’t use any data protection
practices at all.
At Proton, we’re leading the fight for an internet where privacy is the def
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On Dec. 14, 2020, the Council of the European Union, which is made up of
government ministers from the 27 EU member countries, released a vague,
five-page resolution that calls for new rules to govern the use of encryption in
Europe.
The resolution,
The saying goes that if you aren’t paying for a product, you are the product. As
a Facebook, Google, or Twitter user, it’s easy to think of yourself as the
customer. But there’s a reason why you get access to these attractive and
user-friendly servic
Late Tuesday night, a US congressional subcommittee investigating the major tech
companies for anti-competitive practices released its much-anticipated report.
The document, over 400 pages long, describes an internet that is highly
centralized around
Over the past several years, data retention laws have become more and more
popular in European countries. These require internet service providers, telecom
companies, and online platforms to store metadata about their users, making it
much easier for