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Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain

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Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain

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Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish · 2 years ago

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Proton Mail came under scrutiny for its role in a legal request by the Spanish authorities leading to the identification and arrest of a user.

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It wasn’t metadata it was an entirely optional recovery email address that he used for his apple account.
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  Which was linked to his metadata which was what the police were after in the first place.

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