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Proton were forced by swiss court order to log the IP address of a climate activist, which led to his arrest, but as far as we know they never actually breached his encrypted emails.
Tuta had a similar incident, but due to being based in Germany, had to go farther, and allowed access to any emails that weren't encrypted for the court ordered individual.
That only matters if you believe you will be a person of interest for your government, and the lesson is that no email service is perfectly safe for things that require that level of protection.
For most of us, any of the private emails will be fine, and are certainly better than Google.
Yeah, they were able (and thus legally required) to hand over the user's recovery email address, which is what got them caught. You don't need to enter a recovery email address, and you can of course choose to use an equally-secure service for recovery.
One big technical issue to note is that Proton doesn't use end-to-end encryption for email headers, which includes recipients and subject lines, among other things. So that's potentially exposed to law enforcement as well. I believe Tuta does encrypt headers.
Yeah, I'm not "that guy". I'd just like to get my money's worth. Thanks for the highlights.