ProtonMail which has sold itself as an email service with privacy and anonymity features, is now logging IPs of users and has even provided the IP of one of its users to police.

RT:

A French climate activist has been arrested after the private email service ProtonMail cooperated with authorities after a court ruling, logging details of a user before providing it to the police to identify a French citizen.
On Monday, Andy Yen, the founder and CEO of Proton, the company behind the Swiss email provider ProtonMail, published a statement saying that he deplored the way legal tools had been used to bring about the arrest of a French climate change activist, but claimed his service was still secure.

β€œIn this case, Proton received a legally binding order from Swiss authorities which we are obligated to comply with. There was no possibility to appeal this particular request,” Yen wrote.

The data was requested as part of a wider investigation into the occupation of a number of Paris flats and commercial properties by climate activists. While attempting to remain anonymous, one of the activists had used the address β€œ[email protected]” in online postings.

This climate change hoaxer sounds like an idiot, but ProtonMail should not have provided his information to police. Especially when their entire brand is based around privacy and anonymity.

Shortly after Charlottesville happened and I got kicked off of numerous services, I signed up for a ProtonMail account out of necessity and they temporarily blocked access to my account after people complained that I was a Neo-Nazi. They restored my access after people complained, but I knew then that they were not going to be a reliable company.

Sure, they are a step up from Google Gmail, but not by a whole lot if they’re doing this to one of their users.

I don’t think there is any one single service you can 100 percent rely on for anything in this environment. The entire tech industry is corrupted, with some companies being much more corrupt and evil than others.