(And in the U.S., emails are considered “abandoned” after 180 days, so the government can request them without a warrant.) This includes inbox contents, metadata, IP addresses, and more. and may be forced by law to turn over information on its users. Switzerland is not part of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing agreement that exists between the U.S., Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand.īy comparison, Google is located in the U.S. This means that ProtonMail can’t be forced to hand over data to authorities in the U.S. In addition to not being able to read the email stored on their servers, ProtonMail is based in Switzerland, where privacy laws are notoriously strict. RELATED: What Is End-to-End Encryption, and Why Does It Matter? ProtonMail’s Servers Are Located in Switzerland Unlike with ProtonMail, which explicitly supports the feature, working with PGP inside of Gmail is much less streamlined and borderline unusable on mobile. So this is a big change for me.Using PGP inside of Gmail is possible but difficult, with browser extensions like Mailvelope and FlowCrypt making it easier to manage.
I would add that I’ve been a Gmail user since it was invitation only. Good to know the service is generally reliable. I didn’t know PM offered lifetime accounts at one time. I use a Mac and have switched to Firefox. I am trying Tresorit for cloud storage but I am reconsidering whether I want to keep any documents in the cloud. For search I am using Searx and really like it. Google is based on customers sharing lots of data. There is a pause setting but no off and I’m not sure how long they will pause or if I can trust that. I saw the history Google maintained on my searches and tried to turn that off. What really got me started thinking about privacy was search. Of course that’s not all as Gmail is not encrypted at rest. I agree that a small company cannot match Google’s resources.įWIW I am a G Suite customer and don’t think Google scans my email.
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