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Introducing Dark Web Monitoring for credential leaks | Proton (proton.me)

submitted 11 months ago by aa1@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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[–] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

This is a pretty common service with credit monitoring. Any reason to expect this to be done better by proton?

[–] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

How I see such services

[–] pico@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Proton revealed information to the FBI without hesitation when they asked. I will not be using proton.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2023/08/08/protonmail-fbi-search-led-to-a-suspect-threatening-a-2020-election-official/?sh=39c25608235c

[–] britishblaze@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah? Proton have always said they will comply with Swiss authorities for requests for metadata. Good luck finding any email provider that doesn't comply with it's home countries laws.

[–] emzili@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

They can only reveal metadata since they keep everything encrypted, but that was enough to track down this person's Proton recovery email address? That's disconcerting.

Trying to use a commercial privacy service to threaten election officials is definitely some dumb shit though, but I bet they could have avoided that outcome with some better opsec