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Proton Mail Discloses User Data Leading to Arrest in Spain (restoreprivacy.com)
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[–] QuaternionsRock 65 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Upon receiving the recovery email from Proton Mail, Spanish authorities further requested Apple to provide additional details linked to that email, leading to the identification of the individual.

The user specifically requested that Proton retain this PII for account recovery.

Speaking of which, how do they implement recovery emails? Do they save your private keys only if account recovery is enabled?

[–] Periodicchair 40 points 7 months ago

Recovery email only restores access to the account, so you can get future emails. But all data is lost, emails sent in the past (saved emails) are not recovered.

https://proton.me/support/set-account-recovery-methods