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Protonmail suspends user account on behalf of feds (links.hackliberty.org)
submitted 1 week ago by XmX@links.hackliberty.org to c/privacy@links.hackliberty.org
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Protonmail suspends user account on behalf of National Defence Radio Establishment.

It has happen before https://thehackernews.com/2021/09/protonmail-shares-activists-ip-address.html

And it happen again, this time the National Defence Radio Establishment have conducted illegal surveillance which they reported in to Protonmail as spam to get the users account suspended, even the accounts that no mail has sent from.

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[-] retrospectology@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

So they were forced by the state to collect data on a specific account being investigated for some kind of criminal activity.

I guess I'm kind of wondering what law was being broken, it's not clear from the article that I can see. Anti-gentrification activism doesn't exactly sound like Al-Qaeda, so the bigger story here might be abuse of the justice system.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

This doesn’t seem unreasonable at all to me. They have terms of service, and if you break them, they suspend your account.

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