{"id":15990,"date":"2021-09-19T15:48:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T15:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/uncategorized\/protonmail-logged-ip-address-of-french-activist-after-order-by-swiss-authorities\/"},"modified":"2021-09-19T15:48:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T15:48:50","slug":"protonmail-logged-ip-address-of-french-activist-after-order-by-swiss-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyherald.co.uk\/tech\/protonmail-logged-ip-address-of-french-activist-after-order-by-swiss-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"ProtonMail logged IP address of French activist after order by Swiss authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"

ProtonMail, a hosted email service with a focus on end-to-end encrypted communications, has been facing criticism after a police report showed that French authorities managed to obtain the IP address of a French activist who was using the online service. The company has communicated widely about the incident, stating that it doesn\u2019t log IP addresses by default and it only complies with local regulation \u2014 in that case Swiss law. While ProtonMail didn\u2019t cooperate with French authorities, French police sent a request to Swiss police via Europol to force the company to obtain the IP address of one of its users. For the past year, a group of people have taken over a handful of commercial premises and apartments near Place Sainte Marthe in Paris. They want to fight against gentrification, real estate speculation, Airbnb and high-end restaurants. While it started as a local conflict, it quickly became a symbolic campaign. They attracted newspaper headlines when they started occupying premises rented by Le Petit Cambodge \u2014 a restaurant that was targeted by the November 13, 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris. On September 1, the group published an article on Paris-luttes.info, an anti-capitalist news website, summing up different police investigations and legal cases against some members of the group. According to their story, French police sent an Europol request to ProtonMail in order to uncover the identity of the person who created a ProtonMail account \u2014 the group was using this email address to communicate. The address has also been shared… Click below to read the full story from TechCrunch
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ProtonMail, a hosted email service with a focus on end-to-end encrypted communications, has been facing criticism after a police report showed that French authorities managed to obtain the IP address of a French activist who was using the online service. 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