An amendment to the Swiss surveillance law would require VPNs and messaging apps to identify and retain user data – ...

It said "because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government proposals to introduce mass surveillance – proposals that have ...

Privacy-first firm bolts as Swiss politicians threaten anonymity Proton is beginning to shift its physical infrastructure out ...

Proton, a provider of encrypted communication services, plans to withdraw its IT infrastructure from Switzerland due to legislation that would put the company’s privacy by design ethos at risk. The ...

According to a Swiss monitoring ordinance, services with more than 5000 users must identify customers.

The infrastructure for Lumo will not be located in Switzerland, however. Proton has opted for Germany instead and is also developing facilities in Norway at a cost of CHF 100 million. Proposed changes ...

Plus, Proton Drive is based in Switzerland, a country with some of the strongest privacy laws in the world. By contrast, ...

Proton has fixed a bug in the iOS version of its Authenticator app that logged users’ sensitive TOTP secrets in plaintext, ...

Proton VPN launched in Switzerland in 2017. It is the sister to ProtonMail, an encrypted email service endorsed by Ed Snowden. It is a secure VPN with many features and a useful free plan.