I don’t have Threads or follow anyone from there but sounds a bit… complicated?

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/threads-expands-open-social-web-integrations-with-fediverse-feed-user-profile-search/

I guess they’d argue that none of those pesky little data protection laws apply to competent authorities like the police and they’re probably justifying it it the criminal prosecution clause.

Great.

VC financed social media at the start of its enshittification journey. Started interesting with open protocol but seems it has no ambitions of being open.

Deleted my account 6 months ago and haven’t missed it.

If and when you send or receive e-mail encrypted by PGP, the body (contents) of the message is indeed encrypted and you’re safe from snooping and data collection, which is great. However, privacy-wise this might actually be a bad thing, because almost no one uses PGP and using it makes you stand out in a sea of normal e-mail users for someone who collects and analyzes lot of data. So if that’s your threat model, using PGP might actually be dangerous. Also, you have to remember and remind everyone to use PGP, which is cumbersome if you correspond with non-techie people. You don’t really know how they handle “their side” and PGP software is notoriously not very user friendly.

Whenever you send someone unencrypted e-mail from your Proton account, there’s a chance that the recipients e-mail provider (most likely Google or Microsoft) reads it. Same when they send it to you. It doesn’t actually matter that the message sits encrypted “at rest” in your Proton accounts Sent Items -, the contents have already been read, indexed and sold to a broker.

It’s very hard to do e-mail privacy because the protocol itself doesn’t have any built-in. It’s better to use other communication methods for sensitive transactions.

Then Proton should be fine. As far as I know, they don’t sell user data.

Of course as soon as you send an email or receive it from someone else, there’s a chance it will be mined, but while it’s ”at rest” on Proton servers it should fulfill your model just fine.

Depends on your threat model. What are you defending against?

At the protests? Surely the Palantir precog crime prevention analysts submerged in the cellar should have know this future crime was about to happen, well before the protest.