• Bakersfield@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The email service says it was unable to appeal a Swiss court’s demand to log the IP address of a French climate advocate.

    This weekend, news broke that the anonymous email service ProtonMail turned over a French climate activist’s IP address and browser fingerprint to Swiss authorities. The move seemed to contradict the company’s own privacy-focused policies, which as recently as last week stated, “By default, we do not keep any IP logs which can be linked to your anonymous email account.”

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