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Powerful forces are exploiting parents’ fears to strengthen their toxic business models. Here’s how we stop them.

Enable team productivity while keeping data private and secure with Proton Workspace. Privacy‑first collaboration tools for modern businesses.

Protect the conversations that matter with a secure, end-to-end encrypted video conferencing from Proton.

Give your child a safer start online. Reserve a private, secure, no-ads address with Proton Mail that stays sealed until your child is ready.

Proton Mail’s next-generation iOS and Android apps were rebuilt from the ground up. Here’s why we did it and what it changes for users.

Proton surveyed 1,000 people across four countries to reveal how personal spreadsheet data lives on, stays shared, and may be used long after you forget it.

We raised over $1.25 million this year to directly support organizations on the front lines of the fight for online privacy and freedom.

Secure your network, manage team credentials and block phishing attacks with a single plan for businesses of all sizes. Get a free trial.

Enter the 2025 Proton Lifetime Account Charity Fundraiser to support privacy and free speech. Win access to every Proton product, forever.

Join Proton’s 2025 Lifetime Fundraiser and help decide which organizations receive grants supporting privacy, free speech, and human rights.

To help defend our cultural heritage, Proton Pass Professional password manager plans are free for two years to qualifying organizations. Learn more.

You should be able to use 2FA while protecting your privacy. Learn how Authenticator generates secure, private TOTPs.

Proton Mail will introduce Category views and Proton Drive will introduce Team Drives. See what other new features Proton has planned for the next several months.

When something unexpected happens, make sure your loved ones can get the critical data they need with Emergency Access for your Proton Account.

The US recently implemented a 39% tariff of Swiss imports. In solidarity, Proton is offering discounts on our services to Swiss businesses and citizens.

To build a secure 2FA app for all major devices, Proton turned to Rust. Carlos Quintana explains why we chose Rust and why we'll likely use it more in the future.

Proton has successfully completed its first SOC 2 Type II audit, confirming our security controls meet industry standards and helping teams evaluate us with confidence.

We're launching a secure, independent authenticator app available on desktop and mobile, to help you secure your online accounts.

Proton is offering free business tools to French SMEs to support Europe’s digital sovereignty and reduce reliance on Big Tech platforms.

Apple's anti-competitive App Store policies are gouging consumers, enabling censorship, and harming privacy-focused developers. We're joining a lawsuit to restore internet freedom.

It will feature expert voices who can cut through the noise about the threats we all face, but also ordinary people who ask the same questions you do.

We raised over $1 million this year to directly support organizations on the front lines of the fight for online privacy and freedom.

Learn how to join our 2024 Lifetime Account Charity Fundraiser, your chance to win our most exclusive plan and fight for a better internet.

Learn more about our exclusive Pass + SimpleLogin Lifetime offer. Pay once and enjoy premium password manager features for life.

It’s time to choose the organizations we should support for the 2024 edition of our annual charity fundraiser.

Switch from your current password manager to Proton Pass and we’ll pay for the remainder of your contract. Learn how to switch.

As students build their lives online, Proton makes it safe for them to access educational resources, communicate with each other, and share knowledge online safely.

In response to popular demand, our privacy-first AI writing assistant Proton Scribe is now available for free on our Duo and Family plans, in nine different languages.

Proton Wallet is an easy-to-use self-custodial wallet that makes financial freedom attainable for everyone.

With Proton Scribe, your team will save time writing emails, and you'll protect your business data by reducing the need to expose it to AI assistants.

In May 2024, Proton received an ISO 27001 certification, highlighting our commitment to security and user privacy. Here’s what comes next.

To ensure our mission always comes first, Proton is transitioning to a non-profit structure and formalizing our promise of people before profits.

The results of the 2024 Proton community survey are in! Now you can learn more about what most of the community wants.

Proton and the end-to-end encrypted note-taking app Standard Notes are joining forces. We’ve long been admirers and are excited to welcome Mo and his team.

Proton Mail is still available in India despite some media reports. Here’s the most up-to-date information on the current situation.

Proton's mission, funding sources, independence, and community are some of the reasons we're more resilient than other privacy-first companies.

The Proton username X and its email address, x[at]proton.me are back up for auction. You have until Friday to get your bids in!

Thanks to your generosity, we raised $732,000 to support organizations fighting for privacy and freedom around the world.

Buy raffle tickets until January 1 at 11:59 PM CET for a chance to win a Proton Lifetime account and bid on three rare email addresses.

It’s time for Proton’s 2023 Lifetime Account Charity Fundraiser. Once again we’re asking the community to pick the beneficiaries.

We developed our own CAPTCHA service to ensure it is secure, respects privacy, and optimized to be usable by everyone. Find out how it works.

We're introducing the Proton Sentinel program that offers advanced account protection for anyone that deals with sensitive data.

Privacy is a fundamental human right, yet few news sources cover it comprehensively. The updated Proton newsletter fixes that.

This is a significant milestone, not just for Proton and the Proton community, but for the entire privacy movement.

Proton uses sophisticated automated anti-abuse systems to protect your account. We also explain how to resolve issues with your account.

Gluon is a new high-performance IMAP library that is open source, RFC compliant, and actively maintained and improved by the Proton Mail team.

Use Proton’s new side panel to easily check your calendar and manage your contacts.

We raised over $680,000 in our Lifetime Account Charity Fundraiser, setting yet another new record.

Nous souhaitons apporter des précisions importantes concernant le cas d'un militant climatique qui a été arrêté par la police française.

Buy a raffle ticket from our store to support 10 organizations you helped choose. You'll also have a chance to win a Proton Lifetime account.

We’re raffling six Lifetime accounts to raise funds for charity. We’re asking you to help us choose who to support.

The OpenPGP community made it easier to set up decentralized certificate authorities. We explain why we're acting as a certificate authority.

Luc Poupard, a member of our Growth engineering team, explains all the challenges we faced as built our new Proton website.

In another demonstration of how influential the privacy movement has become, Proton’s CEO, Andy Yen, was included in the TIME 100 NEXT list.

We joined several privacy-focused companies to sign a pledge that lays out how we can build a better internet where privacy is the default.

Bart Butler, our CTO, explains what caused the disruption of Proton services in July and what we’ve done to prevent similar outages.

The Proton Localization Community is a group of volunteers that translates Proton services to make online privacy available to everyone.

Irina, Proton’s first marketing hire, discusses how she advocates for the Proton community through her work and the importance of the Proton mission.

At Proton, we have a vibrant localization community that helps to translate our apps so people around the world can use them in their native language.

At Proton, we’re supported by our diverse community. Here’s the story of power user Rafficer, who helps with numerous projects and contributes to the Proton subreddit.

Proton is continuing its bug bounty program with Bug Bounty Switzerland. If you're a security researcher, we invite you to participate.

Proton hosted dozens of developers who discussed the future of encrypted email using OpenPGP with our lead of Cryptography, Daniel Huigens.

Thanks to the community, Proton has passed the major milestone of 70 million accounts.

ProtonMail is now Proton! We’re more than just encrypted email — we now offer an entire privacy-focused ecosystem of services.

Thibaud Eberwein, the Head of the Proton Creative Studio, explains the thinking behind our new icons, logos, color palette, and typography.

We will be updating all Proton apps and launching a new website. Here’s what’s coming and what you can expect.

Our CEO, Dr. Andy Yen, explains the future direction of Proton and what changes the Proton community can expect in the coming months.

SimpleLogin has joined Proton. Soon, the entire Proton community will be able to hide their email addresses.

Our CEO, Dr. Andy Yen, shares the results of our annual Proton community survey and how it will factor into the coming year of development.

Our CTO, Bart Butler, outlines what new features and updates you can expect from Proton over the rest of 2022.

A new poll has shown that people overwhelmingly want to be able to choose their default core apps when setting up a new device.

ProtonMail, Proton VPN, Proton Calendar, and Proton Drive all passed security audits conducted by the IT security firm Securitum.

The UK has long been home to one of the largest Proton communities. To better serve that community, Proton is expanding into London.

We have redesigned our Proton Mail Bridge app, which allows you to access Proton Mail using desktop email clients, for improved ease of use

Bart Butler, our CTO, explains how we resolved a DKIM replay attack and how you can protect your domain from being impersonated.

Over 23,000 people bought tickets in our Lifetime Account Charity Fundraiser, making it our biggest one yet.

We will provide free accounts to reporters through the RSF. You can also support its mission by participating in Proton’s Lifetime Fundraiser.

Alisée de Tonnac, co-founder and co-CEO of Seedstars, and Bill Kaiser, partner emeritus at Greylock Partners, are joining the Proton board

We are looking for qualified security researchers to join our bug bounty program. If you have experience hacking email, VPNs, or breaking encryption, join us!

Proton Mail was founded to build a better internet, and to protect activists, journalists, and ordinary people from online surveillance.

We would like to provide important clarifications regarding the case of the climate activist who was arrested by French police.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web and advocate for the right to privacy, is joining Proton’s advisory board.

Before we released the new Proton Mail, security experts conducted an independent audit of its open source code. You can read their report.

On Proton’s 7th birthday, we want to thank the many people who have chosen privacy and celebrate that privacy has entered the mainstream.

Non-product news about Proton's offices, datacenters, and our presence in Brussels. We also discuss CRV divestment and partnering with our comunity.

This has been our biggest Lifetime account auction and raffle. Thanks to your support, we have raised $300,000 to support The Markup, noyb, Thirst Project, EDRi, Tails, and IFJ’s Safety Fund.

While Proton will always focus on its services, we cannot build a better internet where privacy is the default without advocacy.

Proton has always been supported by its community, from our initial crowdfunding fundraiser in 2014 to everyone who uses Proton today.

Earlier today claims appeared that Proton Mail is compromised because of an alleged connection between our SSL certificates and DarkMatter, a shadowy cybersecurity company. These allegations are false, as we will explain.

Our first-ever charity auction has exceeded all expectations, generating over €30,000 for three organizations dedicated to human rights and online privacy.

Proton has joined the Tor Project as a Green Onion Member and has implemented a major update to our Tor .onion site.

We look into the history of Proton, from the creation of Proton Mail to today, and explain what is to come.

We invited our community to test new prototypes.

We're happy to announce a major new version of OpenPGPjs, the world's most widely used JavaScript PGP encryption library. Version 3.0 brings many enhancements to the hundreds of applications and millions of users who rely on OpenPGPjs.

Since our launch in 2014, Proton Mail has attracted significant interest from news outlets and technical professionals as the first secure email service with end-to-end encryption. This page contains an updated list of independent reviews to make it

Since 2014, Proton Mail has had a tradition of conducting an annual user survey. We are happy to announce the 2017 edition of our annual secure email user survey is now ready!

Proton Mail started as a globally distributed team and against common advice, we stayed distributed. Three years later, here are some of the things we have learned about diversity in tec

We are excited to announce that Proton VPN finally launched this morning and is now open to the general public. This is an important milestone in our mission to provide secure Internet to everyone in the world.

Last March, Proton Mail launched out of beta. This March, we're bringing back Proton Mail Beta so you can test new Proton Mail features before they are released.

The world's largest encrypted email provider, with over two million users, is taking active measures to defend against state-sponsored censorship.

We're happy to announce the launch of the Official Proton Mail Shop! Official Proton Mail T-shirts, mugs, and other merchandise are now available immediately.

Earlier this morning, Proton Mail Lifetime Accounts sold out 12 hours after we made them available. On Black Friday, we made 50 Proton Mail Lifetime Accounts available for 1337€ each

Proton Mail is not vulnerable to the recently announced Linux TCP Vulnerability. Earlier this week, a serious Linux TCP Vulnerability was disclosed by researchers.

For the first time, you can now use your own domain name with Proton Mail. This means emails sent to/from yourname@yourdomain.com can go through Proton Mail and benefit from end-to-end encryption.

Update: we are using SwissSign AG as the certificate authority to issue our SSL/TLS certificate.

After intense work, we have mitigated the DDoS attacks against us.

Looks like Elliot Alderson from Mr. Robot is using Proton Mail!

Over the past couple days, we have received an increasingly large number of emails from Lavaboom users concerned about what appears to be the impending closure of Lavaboom.

Today, we are happy to announce the release of Proton Mail 2.0, our biggest update since the original Proton Mail launch.

With Proton Mail v1.14, our homepage gained a completely a new, fresh look. As with everything we do, the new design was largely driven by user feedback.

We are pleased to announce that we have sent out close to 300,000 invites in the last several months! We are inviting new users every week and will very soon, almost surely, approach instant access.

Proton Mail has been selected in the Innovative World Technologies category for the SXSW Accelerator competition.

We show you how you can enable storage session on firefox.

Guide to export Gmail contact into Proton Mail.

Protonmail’s first security competition.

Updates regarding Paypal freezing Proton Mail's account.

Update regarding the Proton Mail Campaign.

Thank you for your support!

Switzerland has a strong reputation for privacy, dating back over 100 years, but is this reputation actually backed up by strong laws?

Learn more about the Proton Mail Threat Model.

Proton Mail will be pitching at MassChallenge!

Proton Mail took the 2nd place at StartupJackpot Boston.

Andy Yen, CEO explained the design philosophy behind Proton Mail.

Buy a raffle ticket from our store to support Reporters Without Borders’ work and have a chance to win a Proton Mail Lifetime account.

As an encrypted email service, we do not have the ability to decrypt or read user messages. The email published on dossier.center regarding Ryanair 4978 was obtained from the server that received the message.

We are auctioning three and raffling three Lifetime accounts to raise money to support The Markup, noyb, Thirst Project, EDRi, Tails, and IFJ’s Safety Fund.

Proton is auctioning and raffling six Lifetime accounts to raise funds for charity. We’re asking our community to help us choose the beneficiaries.

Import Assistant lets you migrate messages and folders from your old email service to your encrypted Proton Mail account.

On September 29, an internet routing error by an Australian ISP redirected a third of our global traffic. ISPs must start taking BGP hijacking seriously.

Proton has joined the Coalition for App Fairness to support regulatory efforts that favor an open, free, and private internet for all.

Proton believes privacy and freedom are human rights. We stand with pro-democracy activists in Belarus working to end authoritarian control.

Developers can now quickly see which other cryptographic libraries OpenPGP.js and GopenPGP work with. This makes developing encrypted apps much easier.

Proton is offering extra storage, free business email accounts, and other resources to support our community through the coronavirus pandemic.

Free digital services have become the norm, but we’re paying for them with our data. At Proton, we’re turning this model upside down and restoring digital freedom.

This holiday season, we’re donating to organizations working to build a better world. The Proton Lifetime Account auction raised over €60,000.

We are auctioning three Proton Mail Lifetime Accounts to raise money to support NetBlocks, 350.org, and the Web Foundation’s Women’s Rights Online project.

Proton Mail is auctioning three Lifetime Accounts for 2019 to raise funds for charity. We’re asking the community to help us choose the beneficiaries.

Belarus blocked access to Proton Mail and Proton VPN inside the country on Nov. 15, 2019. Here’s how you can continue accessing Proton Mail.

With the latest version of the web app, Proton Mail is laying the groundwork for future products and more customization. Learn how to start using Version 4.0 beta now.

Protesters around the world are using Proton Mail to secure their communications. We support their right to free speech and privacy.

Proton Mail announces new security features (including WKD, DANE, and MTA-STS) and working on improvements to provide users with more protection against attackers.

More clarification about the Bellingcat case.

Open source is a core principle of Proton Mail. We’re excited to make even more of our code available (GoOpenPGP) for independent inspection and use by the developer community.

We are happy to announce that the European Commission has awarded €2 million to Proton AG, the parent company of Proton Mail and Proton VPN, to develop a suite of encrypted services.

The holidays are a time of giving, and this year we are auctioning three Proton Mail Lifetime Accounts, with all proceeds going towards supporting three organizations that align strongly with our mission.

why we’re supporting a Reporters Without Borders Germany scholarship program that trains reporters how to be safe online.

We launched our free VPN service, Proton VPN, in 2017 to ensure that the Internet lives up to its promise of freedom of information. WireGuard is a new VPN protocol that is worthy of our support.  

In this article we provide a brief update of the DDoS attack situation.

We’re happy to announce the strongest encryption algorithm ever conceived: Delete-Everything Verifiably Null Universally Lossy Logarithm, or DEVNULL for short.

As part of our commitment to security, we maintain a Tor onion site for Proton Mail which can provide extra privacy and accessibility in countries where Proton Mail is blocked.

Participate now in Proton Mail's 2016 Encrypted Email User Survey. The Proton Mail project roadmap for the next year is determined by our annual survey.

Proton Mail’s encrypted email service was recently selected by the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences as a Finalist for the 2016 Lovie Awards.

Proton Mail Android v1.3.2 new features and fixes.

Proton Mail 3.0 comes by default with a new theme, but for those who prefer the original Proton Mail look, the Classic Theme is still available.

In preparation for the upcoming release of custom domains, we have released two new versions of the Proton Mail encrypted email mobile applications.

Proton Mail 3.0 is finally here!

PGP email messages from Facebook will be automatically decrypted by Proton Mail.

Themes are being revamped, so stay tuned for updates regarding themes in Proton Mail 3.0.

Proton Mail was invited at Swissnex San Francisco!

One year ago, we launched Proton Mail Beta to bring easy to use private email to the world. We never imagined that our project would gather so much support from all around the world. Thanks to you, Proton Mail has grown incredibly in the past year. T

Several months ago, we were asked to come to TED Global to give a talk about privacy – and today the video is finally getting published!

We're happy to announce that Proton Mail has secured a second financing round of $2M USD from Charles River Ventures (CRV) and the Fondation Genevoise pour l'Innovation Technologique (FONGIT).

As part of our effort to provide the highest level of security and privacy to Proton Mail users, we have upgraded every single SSL certificate that we use.

We are happy to announce that ProtonMail has become a member of RIPE NCC (Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre)

All of our infrastructure upgrades listed.

Schedule for inviting users.

We have upgraded our SSL certificate!  The new fingerprint can be found in our knowledge base: https://pme.protonblog.tech/support/protonmails-ssl-certificate

Learn more about the Proton Mail's Crowdfunding Campaign.

ProtonMail's mission is to keep users anonymous that is the reason why we don't use Google Analytics. Find out more here.

List of Proton Mail security contributors.

Notification emails update.

Andy Yen, CEO at Proton Mail had the opportunity to meet with renowned security expert Bruce Schneier.

Protonmail at Cryptocoins.

Proton Mail has been selected as MIT100k Semifinalist.