'There is no universe in which Proton VPN compromises its no-logs policy' — Proton joins the backlash against Canada's surveillance bill
2026-05-20 16:29 UTC
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@arcine@jlai.lu 2026-05-21 00:08
Ah yes, Proton, infamous for being the knee and ratting out activists to the authorities, pretends it has any semblance of a spine left.
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@bedwyr@piefed.ca 2026-05-20 18:42
Proton is not a trustworthy company.
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@Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-21 00:23
If you’re a Canadian, please contact your MP about bill C-22, and do it now. They’re voting on this in the next few days. dontsurveil.me Salt Typhoon, a hacking group connected to the Chinese government, used the backdoors put in place by CALEA in the US to spend months buried deep in US telecoms providers surveilling citizens. The Liberals are proposing to put in place a worse version of those exact same backdoors. Bring this up to your MP, remind them that when the Chinese (or North Koreans, Iranians, Russians, or even Americans) inevitably exploit these backdoors to do the same thing to us, it’s going to blow up in their faces. Read the link above for more salient points about why this is bad law. Read Open Media’s articles on it (openmedia.org/…/ottawa-repackages-its-surveillanc…). Bring up these points to your MP. Email them. Phone and demand to speak to them. Make a stink about this. If nothing else, send the form letter from Open Media (the other options are better, but something is better than nothing); action.openmedia.org/page/188754/action/1#main-co… They already tried to pass this law once and it failed. Yes, they have a majority now, but it is a very slim majority. If a few MPs defect this bill will die.
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@XLE@piefed.social 2026-05-20 17:24
Importantly, not to be confused with their email service’s IP logging https://cyberinsider.com/protonmail-logs-users/
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@mlg@lemmy.world 2026-05-21 04:51
Also Proton: “metadata logging does not count as logging, and handing our logs, I mean non existent logs that only contains totally useless metadata, over to the Swiss government is fine because its the Swiss law”
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@minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 2026-05-20 19:09
JFC were losing the internet everywhere… we’re just slaves to nation-states and corporations…
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@Doomsider@lemmy.world 2026-05-21 15:25
Oh look Proton is trying to score some PR bullshit when they will comply with the law just like they comply with the laws in their country. They are a greedy corporation who sells security theatre.