It’s been roughly three months since the European Union’s Digital Markets Act
(DMA), which aims to restore competition and fairness to the internet, came into
effect for Big Tech monopolies. Since then, Google has done precisely nothing to
comply wit
We recently announced that Proton Pass now supports passkeys for everyone across
all devices.
Universal compatibility is a unique approach to implementing passkeys,
unfortunately. Even though passkeys were developed by the FIDO Alliance and the
Worl
If there were still doubts over whether Apple is an abusive monopolist, they
were emphatically dismissed this week. Apple’s new app store policy that it
claims will bring it into compliance with Europe’s Digital Markets Act is a
textbook case of mali
It has recently become fashionable among “privacy” companies based outside of
Switzerland to attack the notion of “Swiss privacy”. Such assertions usually
take the line of “Switzerland is not special because it also has X, Y, Z”, and
then draw a fals
Proton’s encryption is open source and available for public inspection. Because
we use open standards, the encryption that Proton utilizes is also publicly
discussed and debated as part of the IETF standardization process. That’s why it
is always sur
Today, the European Parliament voted on the regulation commonly known as “chat
control”, laying down rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse material.
Earlier drafts of this bill had posed a severe threat to encryption and privacy,
but recent
Last week, the Spanish Presidency of the European Council delayed a vote
regarding the Council’s position on the controversial Child Sexual Abuse
Regulation (CSAR) due to a lack of consensus over the issue of encryption, among
others. This proposed r
Last week, the UK government made a statement in the House of Lords
acknowledging that portions of the controversial Online Safety Bill might not
even be technically enforceable without breaking end-to-end encryption. This
rightly received a lot of a
The UK Parliament is set to finalize a bill this month that threatens privacy
and freedom of speech at a fundamental level. We had hoped for last-minute
amendments to be tabled protecting encryption and privacy, but based on
information coming from P
The RESTRICT Act, which would enable the the US government to ban TikTok from
the US market, is currently working its way through Congress and has the backing
of the White House. We’ve analyzed the legislation over the recent weeks, and
today we’re s
The Online Safety Bill is currently working its way through the UK parliament,
and it’s expected to be passed into law this autumn. This wide-reaching piece of
legislation would force any “user-to-user service” (such as TikTok, Facebook,
and Twitter)
