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PROTON WORKS WITH THE FEDS PROTON WORKS WITH THE FEDS PROTON WORKS WITH THE FEDS PROTON WORKS WITH THE FEDS ProtonMail Gives Up Logs on User, Then Scrubs Website of No IP Logging Claims it gave out thousands of ip adresses over the years
Company does a thing required by law.
Pikachu face.
There's no "feds" in Europe.
And if you bothered to check it yourself instead of bitching about it based on some random guy's post spreading FUD you might have found out Proton contributed to a legal fight that changed the Swiss law and made a repeat of this situation impossible.
The law - for good or for bad - is what defines rights. If there is a judge which says that an investigation has to happen, and also the companies ensured that the claim is legit (you see from the stats that the context 15-20% of the data requests), then what else can be done?
You cannot operate illegally, so either you comply or you shut down.