Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Proton should look who was asking the disclosure. He’s a known far-right judge that opens cases like beer cans. And the “terrorist” group is marked as such because someone had a heart attack the same day there were protests in Catalonia.
Does it matter? He’s still a judge with a judge’s authority. If their policy is to obey the law then the political views of the judge don’t change the fact that his order was lawful.
So if a Russian judge had asked the same the outcome would be the same too? Or a Chinese one?
Depends on what you mean by that:
At any rate, my point is that the decision of whether you obey the law or protect your users should be about the country as a whole, not about any specific judge employed by it. Choosing to obey some judges of the country while ignoring the warrants signed by other judges of the same country is just stupid. The country will not trust you to respect their authority and will not permit you to do business there, while the users will not trust you to keep your promise to protect them and won’t use your service.
Was the heart attacked even in catalonia?
In Barcelona IIRC. Taking a flight (also IIRC)
Governments do the dumbest mental gymnastics to mark groups and individuals as undesireables.