Proton Mail came under scrutiny for its role in a legal request by the Spanish authorities leading to the identification and arrest of a user.
  • azalty@jlai.lu
    1·
    6 months ago

    Proton does require a recovery email address if you sign up to a mail forwarding service or similar, right after creating the account. In that case the account remains locked if you don’t, so that’s just a lie

    • Setarkus.LW@lemmy.world
      2·
      6 months ago

      In the article it says that that’s a one-time verification address. Though that leaves the question if/how long it’s stored