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As the year draws to a close, we want to take a moment to recap the massive
changes Proton Pass, our encrypted password manager, has undergone in the past
six months, and some of our plans for 2024. In just six months, the product has
changed dramati
Google has made sure that 2023 will go down as the year of privacy washing. It
introduced a new “ad privacy feature” for Chrome in September, and now it’s
broadened the release of the beta version of Ad Topics for Android (both part of
its misleading
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
Google Photos’ backup feature automatically backs up your photos on your Android
device. While automatic backups are convenient, there are good reasons you may
want to prevent Google from copying your pictures onto its servers. We’ll show
you how to
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
- Privacy basics
The password manager built into Edge, Microsoft’s proprietary browser, has
several significant limitations that make it a poor choice to use as your
everyday password manager. As a result, we’ve put together a small guide on how
to turn off the Edge
- Privacy basics
Digital files live on physical devices. When those devices get lost, stolen, or
hacked, you can lose all your data unless you’ve created backups on the cloud or
another device.
Data loss is surprisingly common, and sometimes it’s painful — you can l
Last month we asked you to nominate the beneficiaries of our 2023 Lifetime
Account Charity Fundraiser. You came through with hundreds of suggestions, and
today we’re announcing this year’s recipients and launching the fundraiser.
You can buy raffle
After years of research by our cryptography team, you can now set up secure and
automatic email forwarding in Proton Mail. No other large-scale email service
offers a seamless email forwarding feature that preserves end-to-end encryption.
This is on
- Privacy basics
Your online identity is hard to grasp: for some it’s the email address that you
use for all your accounts, while for others it’s their Facebook profile or even
a username on an online forum or multiplayer game world.
In this article we’ll give one p
- Privacy basics
If you’re still using LastPass, you probably shouldn’t be. It has some serious
issues with security, the worst of which is when it suffered the worst data
breach in the history of password managers. To help you get away, we’ve put
together this guide