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*'''User freedom:''' In order to create a Proton account, users accept Proton's Terms of Service, which include a [[forced arbitration]] agreement and {{Wplink|class action}} waiver.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-12-02 |title=Terms of Service |url=https://proton.me/legal/terms |url-status=live |access-date=2026-01-04 |website=Proton |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260126155126/https://proton.me/legal/terms |archive-date=26 Jan 2026}}</ref> | *'''User freedom:''' In order to create a Proton account, users accept Proton's Terms of Service, which include a [[forced arbitration]] agreement and {{Wplink|class action}} waiver.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-12-02 |title=Terms of Service |url=https://proton.me/legal/terms |url-status=live |access-date=2026-01-04 |website=Proton |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260126155126/https://proton.me/legal/terms |archive-date=26 Jan 2026}}</ref> | ||
*'''Business model:'''The company operates under the principles of transparency and user privacy, ensuring that user data is protected from unauthorized access. | *'''Business model:'''The company operates under the principles of transparency and user privacy, ensuring that user data is protected from unauthorized access. | ||
==Incidents== | ==Incidents== | ||
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In June of 2025, writers for the magazine Phrack were investigating cyberattacks from a North Korean group that targeted South Korea's defense infrastructure. The writers disclosed the news of this attack through a dedicated Protonmail account that would only be used for informing South Korea. At the start of August they stopped receiving communication from South Korea, and on August 15th, their dedicated account for disclosure was suspended. The next day a journalist's personal Proton account was suspended as well. When the suspension was appealed, Proton rejected the appeal stating "your account will cause further damage to our service, therefore we will keep the account suspended." After numerous attempts to make contact with Proton, Phrack reached out publicly via [[X]] to Proton. Proton responded saying they had received an alert from a CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) who claimed hackers were misusing the specified Proton accounts. The journalists' accounts were re-instated the day after, but the CERT who made the report was not identified. | In June of 2025, writers for the magazine Phrack were investigating cyberattacks from a North Korean group that targeted South Korea's defense infrastructure. The writers disclosed the news of this attack through a dedicated Protonmail account that would only be used for informing South Korea. At the start of August they stopped receiving communication from South Korea, and on August 15th, their dedicated account for disclosure was suspended. The next day a journalist's personal Proton account was suspended as well. When the suspension was appealed, Proton rejected the appeal stating "your account will cause further damage to our service, therefore we will keep the account suspended." After numerous attempts to make contact with Proton, Phrack reached out publicly via [[X]] to Proton. Proton responded saying they had received an alert from a CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) who claimed hackers were misusing the specified Proton accounts. The journalists' accounts were re-instated the day after, but the CERT who made the report was not identified. | ||
===Proton helps FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protestor (''2026'')=== | |||
In 2026, Proton handed over information related to a Proton Mail user that was being investigated by the FBI for allegedly being behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Cox |first=Joseph |date=5 Mar 2026 |title=Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester |url=https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/ |url-status=live |access-date=10 May 2026 |website=404 Media}}</ref> | |||
==Products== | ==Products== | ||