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- Privacy basics
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Google is one of the biggest obstacles to privacy. The Big Tech giant may offer
quick access to information online, but it also controls vast amounts of your
personal or business data.
Recently, more people are becoming aware of the actual price you
- Privacy basics
If you’re a United States citizen or permanent resident, you have a Social
Security number (SSN). This number is the linchpin of much of your existence,
linked to everything from your tax records to your credit cards. Theft is a
massive problem, whic
- Privacy basics
Compromised passwords are a common issue and probably one of the biggest
cybersecurity threats for regular people. How do passwords get compromised, and
is there anything you can do to prevent it?
* What does compromised password mean?
* How do pa
Data breaches are increasingly common. Whenever you sign up for an online
service, you provide it with personal information that’s valuable to hackers,
such as email addresses, passwords, phone numbers, and more. Unfortunately, many
online services f
Your email address is your online identity, and you share it whenever you create
a new account for an online service. While this offers convenience, it also
leaves your identity exposed if hackers manage to breach the services you use.
Data breaches
Our mission at Proton is to help usher in an internet that protects your privacy
by default, secures your data, and gives you the freedom of choice.
Today we’re taking another step in this direction with the launch of our open
source password manage
A cyberattack on national public employment service France Travail has exposed
the personal data of as many as 43 million people.
The latest breach is the second major cybersecurity attack to happen in France
in the past month, raising concerns abo
Last year, Big Tech companies (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft)
received about $3.04 billion in fines for breaking laws on both sides of the
Atlantic. As of seven days and three hours into 2024, they had already earned
enough revenue to
With Microsoft’s rollout of the new Outlook for Windows, it appears the company
has transformed its email app into a surveillance tool for targeted advertising.
Everyone talks about the privacy-washing campaigns of Google and Apple as they
mine your
Google is one of the biggest obstacles to privacy. The Big Tech giant may offer
quick access to information online, but it also controls vast amounts of your
personal or business data.
Recently, more people are becoming aware of the actual price you
- Privacy basics
If you’re a United States citizen or permanent resident, you have a Social
Security number (SSN). This number is the linchpin of much of your existence,
linked to everything from your tax records to your credit cards. Theft is a
massive problem, whic
- Privacy basics
Compromised passwords are a common issue and probably one of the biggest
cybersecurity threats for regular people. How do passwords get compromised, and
is there anything you can do to prevent it?
* What does compromised password mean?
* How do pa
- Privacy deep dives
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has become notorious as
the legal justification allowing federal agencies like the NSA, CIA, and FBI to
perform warrantless wiretaps, which sweep up the data of hundreds of thousands
of US citi
- Privacy deep dives
We recently announced that Proton Pass now supports passkeys for everyone across
all devices.
Universal compatibility is a unique approach to implementing passkeys,
unfortunately. Even though passkeys were developed by the FIDO Alliance and the
Worl
- Privacy deep dives
Apple’s marketing team has built a powerful association between the iPhone and
privacy. The company’s ad campaigns claim that “what happens on your iPhone,
stays on your iPhone.” And, “Privacy. That’s iPhone.”
But Apple’s lawyers are telling a diffe
If there were still doubts over whether Apple is an abusive monopolist, they
were emphatically dismissed this week. Apple’s new app store policy that it
claims will bring it into compliance with Europe’s Digital Markets Act is a
textbook case of mali
It has recently become fashionable among “privacy” companies based outside of
Switzerland to attack the notion of “Swiss privacy”. Such assertions usually
take the line of “Switzerland is not special because it also has X, Y, Z”, and
then draw a fals
Proton’s encryption is open source and available for public inspection. Because
we use open standards, the encryption that Proton utilizes is also publicly
discussed and debated as part of the IETF standardization process. That’s why it
is always sur
Secure, seamless communication is the foundation of every business. As more
organizations secure their data with Proton, we’ve dramatically expanded our
ecosystem with new products and services, from our password manager to Dark Web
Monitoring for cr
- For business
Businesses are increasingly dealing with the fallout from cybercrime: The number
of attacks is on the rise and the damage done is growing exponentially. One of
the most common vulnerabilities for organizations are their passwords. Since
they are your
In 2023, we significantly expanded the Proton ecosystem, introducing many new
encryption tools and features, including a password manager and apps for Proton
Drive. While these captured headlines, behind the scenes we also added new
features for busi