ProtonMail Logged IP Address of French Activist after Foreign Request Approved by Swiss authorities

A police report revealed that the popular encrypted email service provider ProtonMail shared the IP address of a French activist with the authorities. The privacy friendly end-to-end encrypted email service provider ProtonMail has shared the IP address of anti-gentrification activists with law enforcement authorities, a police report revealed. The company states that it doesn’t log IP addresses, except when it has to comply with local regulation. In this specific case, it received the request for information from the Swiss police, which was contacted by French authorities via Europol. “According to their story, French police sent an Europol request to ProtonMail…