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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

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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

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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

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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

UPDATE Dec. 3, 2020: A second member of the Apophis Squad, Timothy Dalton
Vaughan, pleaded guilty in US federal court to sending bomb threats to thousands
of schools in the UK and US, launching numerous distributed denial-of-service
attacks and for p

The goal of our OpenPGPjs project is to make public-key cryptography not only
available to users, but also to the global developer community. We believe the
widespread availability of open-source and secure cryptography libraries is a
prerequisite of

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Edited May 25th, 2018 to remove the GPGTools recommendation due to the fact that
Apple still has not patched certain Apple Mail vulnerabilities.
We are the developers of Enigmail, Mailvelope, Proton Mail, and the inventor of
PGP. Together, we have b

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The vulnerability report, which came with its own website, efail.de, has
attracted a lot of headlines such as the one below, along with recommendations
to disable the usage of PGP plugins. This was not helped by the fact that until
earlier today, the