they scrubed there no ip logs policy years ago

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    11 months ago

    I mean, the answer to that is clearly they should structure their service to store the absolute least possible personal information needed to allow the service to function so that when a legitimate law enforcement agency comes knocking they can honestly say they don’t have much.

    Which… appears to be pretty much what they do.

    I agree with you. Losing the protection of a right – even one as fundamental as privacy – is by definition not a violation so long as that happens through due process. Now we can certainly talk a lot about what level of process is due, and I’m sure it will be basically unanimous that current standards around the world are FAR too accommodating to law enforcement, but at least in principle a warrant justifies the invasion of privacy. That’s what the warrant is for.

    This story kind of makes me want to switch all my stuff to ProtonMail.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah I would agree with you that given the service they provide (email is brutal), they couldn’t really collect any less info or improve security/privacy much more.