Post by @XNHQ@mastodon.social

2026-06-16 20:59 UTC

@nemo@mas.to It does not change the fact that they are not as private as they claim to be. That is appealing to virtue. Charity and privacy are different things. We are talking about privacy right now and that just seems like a distraction. Even if proton is doing good things, it does not change the fact that they claim to be private but add AI features which are the antithesis of privacy.

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@nemo@mas.to 2026-06-16 21:11

@XNHQ@mastodon.social End-to-end privacy and zero-knowledge principles: Proton emphasizes zero-access encryption and data that cannot be accessed by third parties, including during AI interactions, with chats and data decrypted only on user devices and not logged or sent to external AI providers when users choose private options. On-device and open-source approaches: Proton highlights on-device indexing and the use of open-source language models for some AI tasks, which enhances transparency and reduces reliance on external data collection by third parties https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/23/protons-new-privacy-first-ai-assistant-encrypts-all-chats-keeps-no-logs/ No data retention for AI processing: In Proton Scribe’s privacy-first implementation, prompts transmitted to servers are minimal, and data is not retained after the draft is created, reducing exposure to training data or third-party access. https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/18/proton-launches-privacy-first-ai-writing-assistant-for-email-that-runs-on-device/ 1/2

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