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Proton Is Launching Encrypted Documents to Take On Google Docs
Proton is adding an end-to-end encrypted documents editor to its privacy tools, boosting its competition with Google’s suite of productivity apps.
When particle physicist Andy Yen launched the privacy-focused email service Proton Mail as an ambitious crowdfunding campaign in 2014, the ultimate goal was to make it easier for people to be private online. In screenshots shared by Proton, it appears to be a clean document editor, with many of the standard options you would expect: font and text changes, formatting, adding links, images, and more. The big difference Proton is adding when compared to Google Docs is the encryption—something that is challenging to do at scale and also harder when a document has multiple people editing it at the same time.
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