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 <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="ProtonMail" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/protonmail.html">ProtonMail</a>, a managed email service popular with the crypto community, surrendered a user’s information to Spanish authorities, leading privacy rights advocates to claim it had violated its sworn promise to protect user data.
 <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="ProtonMail" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/protonmail.html">ProtonMail</a> is based in Switzerland and uses privacy and security themes in all of its corporate messaging. Like Switzerland’s once-enviable numbered bank accounts, <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="ProtonMail" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/protonmail.html">ProtonMail</a> made allusions to Swiss privacy, pseudonymity, and jurisdictional <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="Legal" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/legal.html">Legal</a> protections from the power of certain subpoenas. As a result of this marketing campaign, it attracted many crypto users who wanted a private email service.
 In this instance, the user was a member of Mossos d’Esquadra, a police force in Catalonia. Spanish authorities identified him via subpoenas to ProtonMail and Apple.
 The secure email service provided police with a recovery email address that revealed the pseudonym ‘Xuxo Rondinaire.’ Alongside information from Apple related to that recovery email and pseudonym, Spanish authorities believe he assisted the Democratic Tsunami movement.
 ProtonMail’s decision to cooperate with Spanish law enforcement came under immediate fire. The email service admitted to the disclosure while simultaneously boasting that its privacy-centric infrastructure meant that the recovery email address was the only information that it gave to authorities.
 Other free email services like Google’s Gmail, it said, would have turned over more information, such as the recipients or actual content of emails.
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 In response to the news, some users suggested better practices for anyone wishing to remain at the Swiss email service. Given the obvious reality that ProtonMail might surrender backup email addresses to law enforcement, users can supplement their privacy by adding a completely anonymous and unrelated private recovery email. They also recommend using a non-ProtonMail VPN to access the service.
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 Everyone hating on @ProtonPrivacy and saying to cancel subscriptions is missing the point entirely. This case actually proves how powerful Proton Mail is, not the opposite. Europol brought a court order to Proton, and the most Proton could provide was the user's recovery email… pic.twitter.com/kuvTc0jqfe— Seth For Privacy | #FreeSamourai (@sethforprivacy) May 7, 2024
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 Read more: Jack Mallers’ Strike denied an email breach that definitely happened
 <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="ProtonMail" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/protonmail.html">ProtonMail</a>, interestingly, complied with 5,957 data requests in 2022. So although its latest disclosure of the ‘Xuxo Rondinaire’ recovery email address in response to an anti-terrorism law enforcement request gained media attention from the crypto community, the company has made thousands of other disclosures throughout its history.
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