What You think about this proton's boss action?

Privacy and Security Discussions
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Apparently the Swiss government are trying to propose a surveillance law to VPN services, I think proton has 2 choices in this moment:

  1. Kill proton VPN and make a sponsorship with a privacy respecting VPN service;
  2. Leave Swiss and move out for a country like Sweden or Germany;

What’s your opinion?

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Anything we say here is speculation. Proton will do their best to lobby against this I’m sure but let’s not jump to conclusions as to what will actually happen.

But if it passes in full as the proposal stands, they have no choice but to move away from Swiss legislation.

I don’t think they will remove it stop providing any of their services because of this because a lot of people depend on it and is almost lifesaving.

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Like a good Prepper I’m hoping for the best and planning for the worse.

If this law does pass I’ll be moving on to other services. Right now that will be MullvadVPN, Tuta, either Bitwarden or Keepass, and Addy. I can live without cloud storage.

Proton and other companies will be fighting this and it ain’t over until the last appeal fails.

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I still don’t think or believe that Proton is going to let this law affect their user base in the slightest.

They will move away well before it goes into affect if it all still goes through.

Proton is not that kind of a company. That much I trust it.

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I agree but I need to plan for the worse case situation which is the law passes and Proton stays in Switzerland.

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Sure.. having alternatives ready to be used is always a good thing.

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Hey just wanted to let you know I did some misspelling fix and switched the source from the original instead of the MSN as I don’t and I bet others, want to encourage people using MSN (for Microsoft being Microsoft reasons) and instead always get it from the source itself, especially when sharing articles.
Nonetheless thank you for bringing this to light.

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