ProtonMail often touts its Swiss jurisdiction and privacy guarantees, but at the same time, it is complying with a record number of data request orders going through the Swiss legal system. ProtonMail is one of the most popular secure email services in the world, having launched in 2014 via a crowdfunding campaign. It promises a …
My understanding is that the email is encrypted still so… they hand over the encrypted data which might be useless.
(CEO did a podcast this week for a Linux podcast)
The trouble with email is, the vast majority of the time, they are guaranteed to have your incoming and outgoing email in plain text for a little time. Of course, this is true for all email companies, on account of it being, you know, email.
I thought the email body is e2e encrypted nowadays by default(?). And I mean regardless of who your provider is.