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Indian Government to block ProtonMail after bomb threats were sent using a ProtonMail account (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)

submitted 9 months ago by Stewbs@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11998237

The IT ministry has reportedly decided to issue an order blocking end-to-end encrypted email service ProtonMail. According to a report in Hindustan Times, the government is planning to block the email service at the request of the Tamil Nadu police over a hoax bomb threat sent to at least thirteen private schools in Chennai on February 8. The report says that the decision to block ProtonMail was taken at a meeting of the 69A blocking committee on Wednesday (February 14).

A Proton spokesperson told the publication that the company has received the request from MeitY “a few days ago”. “We are currently working to resolve this situation and are investigating how we can best work together with the Indian authorities to do so. We understand the urgency of the situation and are completely clear that our services are not to be used for illegal purposes. We routinely remove users who are found to be doing so and are willing to cooperate wherever possible within international cooperation agreements,” the spokesperson said.

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[–] Stewbs@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

let's ban phones next guys

[–] shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

and brains too, very dangerous

[–] RandoCalrandian@kbin.social 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Can’t have those things being used unregulated or unmonitored

[–] shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

we should make like a scoring system that (without human involvement) determines what brains are the best and worst behaved, thus more likely to benefit their leaders. we could design our society to keep people so preoccupied on making their score better (through things not beneficial to themselves whatsoever) that they don’t have enough time to think about how completely alone and manipulated they feel (we don’t want them feeling that :). maybe down the road this score could be used for good things like improving the economy (selling access to third parties) and handling food and resource concerns (automated death row enrollment)

[–] RandoCalrandian@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

We’ll make it AI trained on all the “best” citizens, fully automatic!