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"We won't keep logs on you, except if you're in trouble with The Authorities, then we'll definitely keep logs on you and rat you out"

Weird definition of privacy we've got going these days

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If you thought that Protonmail (or any other company) was going to go to break the law in order to avoid keeping logs on you despite a Swiss-backed warrant saying they had to do so, then you had the wrong impression. But I never got the impression Protonmail was saying that.

I have never used the service and don't know or care a thing about it. But their advertising is laughably inconsistent with the reality of the service provided.

If it's illegal to provide a completely anonymous email service, then you should not claim to provide a completely anonymous email service.

I think everyone has gotten used to this particular lie, because it's so widespread and all the "privacy" email providers say things like this.

Except maybe Lavabit, that guy apparently shut everything down to avoid doing something along these lines. So maybe he wasn't actually lying.

"We don't keep IP addresses. (we keep PI addresses which are tooooootally different and you didn't ask about those)"

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