Will they immediately comply, or will they lawyer up and fight it? Is there an actual warrant, and how does that even work for 200,000 accounts?
I got caught up in the Voltage copyright cases 10 years ago. Voltage, a copyright exploiter, went after my ISP for contact info on a bunch of IP addresses. The big duopoly in my area rolled over immediately and gave them the info.
My small ISP took things to court, pointed out that Voltage had done this before and never actually brought suit; they just send letters telling people to pay with the threat of a suit. Judge disagreed and ordered the info released. To this day they haven't filed suit against anyone.
The point is, I'm still with said ISP. You can't win them all, but you can fight them all. If Protonmail gives in right away without a fight, I'll drop them immediately.
It does bring home the larger point, which is, don't trust any online platform with your data. People need to learn how to encrypt their own files offline.
That's the big question.
Will they immediately comply, or will they lawyer up and fight it? Is there an actual warrant, and how does that even work for 200,000 accounts?
I got caught up in the Voltage copyright cases 10 years ago. Voltage, a copyright exploiter, went after my ISP for contact info on a bunch of IP addresses. The big duopoly in my area rolled over immediately and gave them the info.
My small ISP took things to court, pointed out that Voltage had done this before and never actually brought suit; they just send letters telling people to pay with the threat of a suit. Judge disagreed and ordered the info released. To this day they haven't filed suit against anyone.
The point is, I'm still with said ISP. You can't win them all, but you can fight them all. If Protonmail gives in right away without a fight, I'll drop them immediately.
It does bring home the larger point, which is, don't trust any online platform with your data. People need to learn how to encrypt their own files offline.