"All Internet service providers must retain the following data for six months:
type of the connections [...] and if known login data, address information of the origin (MAC-address, telephone number), name, address and occupation of the user and duration of the connection from beginning to end
time of the transmission or reception of an email, header information according to the SMTP-protocol and the IP adresses of the sending and receiving email application"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retent...
> As a participant in these discussions, we can confirm unequivocally that upon implementation, the provisions regarding data retention introduced by the BÜPF will exempt companies like ProtonMail and ProtonVPN which are not major telecommunications operators.
I applaud their privacy stance, but paying ranson money to hackers is a deal-breaker for me.
The magnitude of the attack would have killed most services, but ProtonMail managed to mitigate the attack and went as far as becoming their own ISP to prevent getting in this situation in the future.
My two cents on this making them a pretty rare company.
That's where I started looking at FastMail.