ProtonMail Voluntarily Offers Assistance for Real-Time Surveillance?
ProtonMail team here.These allegations are false. Hidden at the bottom of the article, is this: "Public prosecutor Walder of the Competence Center Cybercrime contacted me, saying he had been misquoted". In other words, the alleged source (a public prosecutor) has also supported our denial of these false allegations.ProtonMail does not voluntarily offer assistance. We only do so when ordered by a Swiss court or prosecutor, as we are obligated to follow the law in criminal cases.Furthermore, end-to-end encryption means we cannot be forced by a court to provide message contents.