“I like that is a Swiss company and has a history of protecting users’ privacy,” Blunt told the Daily Dot. Blunt said she likes how ProtonMail provides “a little extra privacy” when communicating with clients and engaging in organizing work. If you forget your password, we cannot recover your data.”ĭanielle Blunt, a founding member of sex worker advocacy group Hacking//Hustling, switched to ProtonMail right before SESTA-FOSTA went into law in 2018. For this reason, we are also unable to do data recovery. “With ProtonMail, privacy isn’t just a promise, it is mathematically ensured. This means we don’t have the technical ability to decrypt your messages, and as a result, we are unable to hand your data over to third parties,” ProtonMail writes. “Data is encrypted on the client side using an encryption key that we do not have access to. ProtonMail offers several security features that appeal to these vulnerable groups, including “encryption at rest,” or emails encrypted when in a user’s inbox, and “zero-access encryption,” preventing ProtonMail from decrypting and reading emails. ProtonMail first arrived in beta in mid-2014, and over the past six years, the email service has become popular with journalists, sex workers, and data privacy activists. Of these, the latter two are still in development. Proton Technologies is best known for ProtonMail, although there are other Proton applications, including a VPN, a calendar, and a cloud drive.

ProtonMail is a privacy-oriented email service from Proton Technologies AG, a non-profit organization based in Switzerland and run by European Organization for Nuclear Research scientists.

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