> If it becomes mandatory for email providers to screen emails, will services such as Protonmail become illegal in the EU?
Protonmail should already be illegal in the EU because they operate under swiss mass-surveilance laws and cooperate with US-American law enforcement. Both of which violates the GDPR if they do business in an EU state.
> Since they don't have access to their users' email content because of encryption.
They still have access to all the unencrypted mail their users send and receive and to all the metadata of the enrypted communications.
> Protonmail should already be illegal in the EU because they operate under swiss mass-surveilance laws and cooperate with US-American law enforcement.
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Seriously? Wow, off to research this I go... That's really disappointing as a paying user. I can't believe I wasn't across this.
Protonmail should already be illegal in the EU because they operate under swiss mass-surveilance laws and cooperate with US-American law enforcement. Both of which violates the GDPR if they do business in an EU state.
> Since they don't have access to their users' email content because of encryption.
They still have access to all the unencrypted mail their users send and receive and to all the metadata of the enrypted communications.