ProtonMail Climate Activist Clarification

We would like to provide important clarifications regarding the case of the climate activist who was recently arrested by French police on criminal charges. We are also deeply concerned about this case and deplore that the legal tools for serious crimes are being used in this way. In the interest of transparency, we would like to provide additional context. In this case, Proton received a legally binding order from Swiss authorities which we are obligated to comply with. There was no possibility to appeal this particular request.

A screenshot of a ProtonMail webpage presents a formal statement about complying with a Swiss authorities’ order related to a climate activist arrested in France. The joke is that the serious corporate clarification resembles the kind of statement associated with controversial data disclosures, making it useful as a reaction to ironic or hypocritical privacy claims.

• @infosecmemes / 646 2021-09-07