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Zoom has seen a flood of new users as the COVID-19 outbreak forces more and more
employees to transition to working from home. Zoom’s big selling point is its
near-frictionless video calls.
However, new users should be aware of the company’s privacy

On Monday, Vice’s Motherboard broke yet another story revealing the extent to
which companies are monetizing their users.
Reporter Joseph Cox’s investigation revealed how Edison, an email productivity
app, is scraping users’ personal inboxes for pur

The European Commission recently submitted proposals for new rules governing how
e-evidence is gathered by law enforcement agencies. E-evidence would include
things like emails, messages, and other data related to a possible crime or
investigation. I

- Opinion
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We created Proton Mail in 2014 because we were concerned about mass
surveillance. At the time, governments were spying on our emails, text messages,
and phone calls. Now there’s a new surveillance threat, but this time the
information at risk isn’t o

Aug. 7, 2019 update: The government has reversed its surveillance strategy,
claiming the whole program was a “test” that is now complete, according to
Reuters. If you installed a government root certificate on your device, you may
now uninstall it wi

- Opinion
- Privacy news
GOOGLE RECENTLY GENERATED A FLURRY OF COVERAGE ABOUT ITS SUPPOSED PRIVACY PIVOT,
INCLUDING AN OP-ED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BY CHIEF EXECUTIVE SUNDAR PICHAI. “WE
FEEL PRIVILEGED THAT BILLIONS OF PEOPLE TRUST PRODUCTS LIKE SEARCH, CHROME,
MAPS, AND ANDR

- Privacy news
WITHOUT END-TO-END ENCRYPTION, GMAIL CONFIDENTIAL MODE IS LITTLE MORE THAN A
MARKETING STRATEGY. LEARN WHY PRIVACY EXPERTS CALL GOOGLE’S PRIVACY FEATURES
“MISLEADING.”
When we launched Proton Mail nearly five years ago, we pioneered a new kind of
em

PROTON MAIL HAS JOINED 23 OTHER TECH COMPANIES TO ENDORSE THE PRIVACY FOR ALL
ACT OF 2019, WHICH WOULD GIVE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE MORE CONTROL OVER THEIR DATA.
We want everyone to have access to online privacy and security. It’s why we
created Proton M

- Opinion
- Privacy news
Our mission is to promote security, privacy, and freedom on the Internet. That
encompasses technical solutions, such as Proton Mail and Proton VPN, but also
policy solutions. The right to privacy and user control of personal data will
never be safe u

One such organization is Charter’97, the most popular independent news outlet in
Belarus. We spoke with their award-winning editor-in-chief, Natalya Radina.
Edit March 12, 2019: The auction ended on December 24th, 2018.
This holiday season, we ar

On Thursday, the Australian government and its Labor partners rammed a
shockingly invasive anti-encryption law through Parliament, over the objections
of experts, businesses, and civil rights groups.
The Assistance and Access (A&A) law requires tech