A Swiss lawyer has accused ProtonMail that the company has initiated offering IP Logging upon request of Swiss authorities.
ProtonMail, the famous end-to-end encrypted email service from Switzerland, has denied the claims made by a Swiss lawyer Martin Steiger regarding the company’s involvement in voluntary assistance to Swiss authorities for real-time surveillance.
The head of the Cybercrime Competence Center, Zurich, and public prosecutor Stephen Walder stated that the company doesn’t offer voluntary real-time surveillance but is obliged to help authorities in certain situations. However, Mr. Steiger publicly posted about ProtonMail’s offer stating that the company has initiated offering IP Logging upon request of Swiss authorities.
For your information, Zurich, Switzerland-based lawyer attended a presentation earlier in May where he mentioned ProtonMail, and later Mr. Steiger tweeted from his Twitter account that he learned at the event that the encrypted email service provider “voluntarily offers assistance for real-time surveillance.”
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Gelernt: @ProtonMail unterstützt Echtzeit-Überwachungsmassnahmen, auch ohne BGE … Wird von Cybercrime-Staatsanwalt Walder ausdrücklich als positives Beispiel erwähnt!
— Martin Steiger (@martinsteiger) May 10, 2019
Contrary to Mr. Steiger’s claims, Walder states that he is being misquoted and that he only said that ProtonMail is a ..
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