Proton Mail Shared User Information with the Police

Post Syndicated from Bruce Schneier original https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/03/proton-mail-shared-user-information-with-the-police.html

404 Media has a story about Proton Mail giving subscriber data to the Swiss government, who passed the information to the FBI.

It’s metadata—payment information related to a particular account—but still important knowledge. This sort of thing happens, even to privacy-centric companies like Proton Mail.