this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2024
71 points (100.0% liked)

TechTakes

1491 readers
84 users here now

Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

This is not debate club. Unless it’s amusing debate.

For actually-good tech, you want our NotAwfulTech community

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
dgerard@awful.systems
71
Proton Mail adds a bitcoin wallet. Yes, really. (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 5 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
40 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 6 points 5 months ago

I'd personally consider that sufficient grounds to accuse Proton of stealing its customers' data.

At the (miniscule) risk of sounding unnecessarily harsh on tech, any customer data that gets sent to company servers without the customer's explicit, uncoerced permission should be considered stolen.