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End-to-end encrypted e-mail app from Proton AG
DuckDuckGo protects privacy primarily by blocking third‑party trackers, forcing HTTPS where available, offering a privacy‑focused search engine and optional browser/extension/ecosystem features that w...
ProtonVPN says it operates under Swiss law with a strict no‑logs policy and repeatedly states it cannot provide connection logs because it is not obligated to retain them; Proton’s transparency report...
Onion (.onion) sites are legitimate technical services hosted on the Tor network that provide anonymity and are used by trusted organizations (e.g., news outlets, email providers) as well as criminals...
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...
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...
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...
ProtonMail has in practice complied with Swiss court orders that compelled it to collect and turn over limited user data—most famously logging and handing an IP address that helped identify a French a...
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...
ProtonVPN maintains a public , but the timeline and granularity of updates in the provided analyses show inconsistencies and gaps. The clearest recent claim in the dataset is a ProtonVPN transparency ...
ProtonMail’s end-to-end encryption for desktop access is built around a proprietary protocol that requires the Proton Bridge proxy for third‑party clients, and reporting indicates there are no fully s...
ProtonVPN publishes a Transparency Report and Warrant Canary that lists legal requests and states the company’s position that Swiss law makes a traditional warrant canary “not meaningful,” because tar...
Thunderbird is a free, open-source desktop email client with native OpenPGP and S/MIME support and recent partnerships to streamline encrypted services; it is used by roughly 20 million people and aim...
Proton Mail Bridge lets Thunderbird send and receive ProtonMail messages while preserving Proton’s end‑to‑end and zero‑access encryption by performing encryption/decryption locally on your computer an...
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...
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...
Proton Mail integration into Mozilla Thunderbird depends primarily on installing , which provides IMAP/SMTP access but is available only to paid Proton customers according to the provided analyses. Th...
Using ProtonMail webmail means trusting Proton on each visit to deliver client-side encryption in your browser; using Thunderbird with Proton Bridge moves encryption and key handling to your local mac...
ProtonVPN based its operations in Switzerland to take advantage of Swiss privacy laws, claiming protection from EU and US surveillance regimes and linking its roots to Proton Mail and CERN founders in...
Proton VPN, a Switzerland‑based service, reports receiving dozens of legal requests in recent years and says it has denied all such orders because Swiss law does not force VPNs to keep connection logs...
Yes — when you run ProtonMail Bridge on your computer, Thunderbird can receive and display decrypted ProtonMail messages because the Bridge decrypts mail locally and presents it to the client over a l...