They’ve always taken the concept of privacy to such an extreme. What is happening there that they’ve started pushing so hard in the opposite direction?
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I bet proton will move out of Switzerland if this becomes a law.
They have said they will move when it does.
How?
Isn’t that where the humans behind the scenes live?
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Protons CEO has said they will leave Switzerland if the law goes through.
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I think we need better ways to self host email
Well, there goes ProtonMail. Let’s hope it is not enacted. I’ll wait for other neutral reports since Tuta is a major competitor. Should be a quick search.
Tuta is hardly a competitor. They don’t even do PGP encrypted email.
Proton has made some statements about exiting Switzerland if these proposals become law. But who knows how long that would take and if any damage is done in the meantime.
Plus there’s other junk going on lately with Proton as a company…
Swiss law takes years — a change this big will probably go to referendum which adds a couple extra years as well. Expect this in the news for a while before anything happens.
It is almost like we should not rely on a single country