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Proton Begins Shifting Infrastructure Outside of Switzerland Ahead of Surveillance Legislation
Proton has begun relocating infrastructure outside Switzerland ahead of proposed surveillance legislation requiring VPNs and messaging services with over 5,000 users to identify customers and retain data for six months. The company's AI chatbot Lumo became the first product hosted on German server...
Proton has begun relocating infrastructure outside Switzerland ahead of proposed surveillance legislation requiring VPNs and messaging services with over 5,000 users to identify customers and retain data for six months.In a blog post about the launch of Lumo last month, Proton's Head of Anti-Abuse and Account Security, Eamonn Maguire, explained that the company had decided to invest outside Switzerland for fear of the looming legal changes. He wrote: "Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government proposals to introduce mass surveillance -- proposals that have been outlawed in the EU -- Proton is moving most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. The proposed amendments to Switzerland's Ordinance on the Surveillance of Correspondence by Post and Telecommunications would also mandate decryption capabilities for providers holding encryption keys.
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