Privacy giants are pushing back hard against the proposed Lawful Access Act

• Proton VPN has hit back at Canada’s proposed Bill C-22

• The proposed legislation could require VPNs to log user metadata

• NordVPN and Windscribe have also slammed the bill

  • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
    22·
    2 hours ago

    First of all the second part was in the news just like 6 9 months ago, I might not have an entirely right but that’s generally what they did, they took the word off governments over people. Second of all I happen to know they accept blacklists as trustworthy, I know because someone who isn’t me is on one and they refused them an account.

    In truth they are Israel’s bitch. In short.

    • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 hour ago

      I might not have an entirely right but that’s generally what they did, they took the word off governments over people

      No they didn’t. Thats not “generally” what they did at all. You’re just spreading more misinformation that you admittedly aren’t even very confident about.

      Second of all I happen to know they accept blacklists as trustworthy, I know because someone who isn’t me is on one and they refused them an account.

      Do you have any proof of this? Or are you just going with “I heard from a guy”?

    • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
      11·
      2 hours ago

      Is it this, or something else?

      https://theintercept.com/2025/09/12/proton-mail-journalist-accounts-suspended/

      I’ve been following this on X/Twitter and I think one of the most egregious things that’s important to point out is that folks from Phrack reached out to Proton in private multiple times, and Proton ghosted them. Proton only engaged with them and then reinstated the accounts after Phrack went public and their X/Twitter post went viral. It also looks like one of the writers filed an appeal with Proton and Proton denied the appeal, so they manually investigated the incident and refused to reinstate the account and then only did after this got attention on X/Twitter.

      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45227316

      • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
        22·
        2 hours ago

        I do read The Intercept but that article is not what I’m talking about, there’s something else that was a lot worse than that that they did just last year. Someone who isn’t me signed up for an account and it’s totally legit and was denied because they’re on a blacklist because Israel and there was no way to like appeal on proton.