ProtonMail suspected to cooperate with the authorities

Η , is a well-known privacy-minded email service. THE so he is accused of helping law enforcement agencies spy on them .

The company of course denies these allegations.

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The first about ProtonMail's cooperation with law enforcement officers were expressed by Stephen Walder, prosecutor and head of the cyber security authority in Switzerland.

ProtonMail practices are also mentioned in the blog by Martin Steiger, lawyer in Switzerland.

ProtonMail is known to provide end-to-end encryption, which is supposed to stop even the company's access to of users' electronic messages.

However, developers still have access to email metadata.

Steiger says this data can be extremely interesting and useful for both law enforcement and intelligence services.

For their part, representatives of ProtonMail published an official announcement, which states that the company does not cooperate with law enforcement officers.

According to ProtonMail, the company helps the authorities only in the case of public intervention.

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