Encrypted email service ProtonMail has become embroiled in a minor scandal after responding to a legal request to hand over a user’s IP address and details of the devices he used to access his mailbox to Swiss police – resulting in the user’s arrest. Police were executing a warrant obtained by French authorities and served on their Swiss counterparts through Interpol, according to social media rumours that ProtonMail chief exec Andy Yen acknowledged to The Register.

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