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Proton “Lifetime” accounts are no longer sold directly in most cases and have appeared on secondary markets and in Proton charity raffles, with reported secondary-market prices ranging widely — common...
Law enforcement can compel Proton to log or hand over certain account metadata (notably IP addresses and device info) under Swiss court orders; Proton has published transparency reports and acknowledg...
Using Proton VPN together with Tor is technically viable and intentionally supported by Proton: the company runs “Tor over VPN” servers that route traffic into the Tor network and let users reach .oni...
Privacy experts point to a small stable of alternatives to DuckDuckGo — notably Startpage, Brave Search, MetaGer, Mojeek, Qwant and Searx — each chosen for different tradeoffs between independent inde...
Proton VPN maintains a strict no-logs policy and publishes transparency reports saying it has denied legal requests for VPN user data—Proton reported 29 legal requests as of June 2025 and states all 2...
Several major VPN providers publish either warrant canaries, transparency reports that list law-enforcement or government data requests, or both. Examples documented in the available reporting include...
Proton VPN’s Secure Core is a provider-controlled “multihop” setup that routes traffic through at least two VPN servers (one in a privacy-friendly, secure jurisdiction) before it leaves Proton’s netwo...
Combining ProtonVPN’s Secure Core with Tor (Proton’s “Tor over VPN” option) layers Proton’s multi‑hop VPN routing through privacy‑friendly countries with the Tor network’s onion routing, offering stro...
Proton’s public position: as a Swiss company it says it only must obey Swiss court orders and “to date we have not received any court order” for ProtonVPN — its transparency report shows denials of fo...
Proton’s public materials and reporting consistently state Proton VPN is a Swiss, no‑logs VPN and that Swiss law prevents gag orders the way U.S. national security letters do; Proton says it has no le...
Combining ’s with the can increase layers of separation between a user and destination sites—reducing straightforward linkability—but it is not a silver bullet and introduces clear trade‑offs in speed...
retains a narrow set of account metadata necessary to operate its services (message counts, storage usage, last login times), temporary verification data for anti-spam and security, limited payment tr...
ProtonVPN’s Secure Core servers are hosted in three privacy-focused countries: Switzerland, Iceland, and Sweden, and route traffic through these hardened entry servers before exiting to a public VPN s...
ProtonMail’s webmail exposes unencrypted message headers such as subject lines and standard delivery metadata; ProtonMail’s zero‑access encryption protects message bodies and attachments but not all m...
Proton VPN will comply with EU (or other foreign) law‑enforcement requests only if those requests are presented to and authorized by the competent Swiss authorities or courts, because Proton is govern...
publicly says it collects minimal user data and will only disclose what it legally must, but and media cases show that the company has turned over limited account metadata — most notably IP addresses,...
Proton’s web and mobile clients perform end-to-end (zero‑access) encryption for message bodies between Proton accounts; Bridge claims to provide the same end‑to‑end encryption while integrating with l...
For users in search of the best open‑source email clients that prioritize privacy in 2023, a handful stand out for different needs: Thunderbird for desktop power and extensibility, FairEmail for Andro...
Proton VPN, operated by Swiss-based Proton AG, repeatedly states it keeps no connection logs and therefore cannot hand over user IPs or browsing histories even when governments ask for them . Swiss la...
Meta will start using interactions with its “Meta AI” features for personalization and ads from December 16, 2025, but the company and multiple press outlets say this applies to AI interactions, not t...