Privacy Guides
In the digital age, protecting your personal information might seem like an impossible task. We’re here to help.
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Additional Resources:
- EFF: Surveillance Self-Defense
- Consumer Reports Security Planner
- Jonah Aragon (YouTube)
- r/Privacy
- Big Ass Data Broker Opt-Out List
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Whoa, didn't mean to spark this level of heated comments. To be clear, I use Proton Mail as my daily email and really enjoy it.
Apparently the popular sentiment is that Proton Mail is a perfectly respectable and trustworthy service. I have no hard evidence to the contrary.
I suppose the intent of my comment was: don't do illegal/immoral things, but especially don't expect Proton Mail to protect you if you are doing illegal things.
Based on popular sentiment, it seems I'd be best just deleting this comment, but in the interest of ensuring complete records, I'll leave it up. Lol, bring on the downvotes.
Don't have any real evidence to substantiate this, but I've heard there's some indicators that Proton is a honey pot for the feds. You can find the occasional youtuber talking about it.
That said, I use Proton Mail to escape the corporate data collection apparatus and really like it. No experience with Tutanota to give a proper comparison.
In interest of a complete record, the video I found most compelling on the issue:
https://youtu.be/IeXaYR4ed9c
I'd love for you to disprove this guy's claims. I mean this in good faith and will be checking back in the next couple hours.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/IeXaYR4ed9c
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.