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Proton’s security and privacy policies can’t always keep your payment information hidden.

While end-to-end encryption can keep an account’s data private and hidden even from a service provider, the name of who paid for the account and other metadata is harder to hide.

404 Media says court records show how Proton Mail responded to a request from authorities in Switzerland, where it’s based, for payment info tied to an account associated with the Stop Cop City protests in Atlanta, GA. That information was then given to the FBI.

The right to anonymity is powerful, and America is destroying it

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