SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An encrypted email service believed to have been used by American fugitive Edward Snowden shut down abruptly on Thursday amid a legal fight that appeared to involve U.S.

ProtonMail, the Swiss email provider that promises privacy via full client-side encryption, has launched a pithier email domain option for its millions of users around the world. Prior to now, users ...

After years of loyalty to Gmail, I finally created a Proton Mail account to switch over completely. While using an encrypted email provider like Proton Mail sounds ideal, I quickly ran into obstacles ...

Sanuj is a tech enthusiast with a passion for exploring smartphones, tablets, and smart wearables. He started his tech journey with a Lumia smartphone, diving into Windows Phone. Later, he switched to ...

I have been moving from Google and Microsoft to Proton products. Proton's email and other products include encryption by default, and password-protecting messages adds a layer of security. However, I ...

What Defines an Anonymous Email? Standard email is designed to be a two-way, identifiable communication system where both sender and receiver know with whom they are in correspondence, but standard ...

As the drumbeat of NSA revelations hit a new high yesterday with revelations that the agency can collect data moving across Google's and Yahoo's data centers around the world-- two companies that ...

You’ve heard of burner phones. What about burner email? So much of the internet now requires that you hand over your email address before you’re able to use any ...

France is proposing a law to require encrypted messaging applications, including Signal and WhatsApp, and encrypted email services such as Proton Mail to provide law enforcement with decrypted data on ...

The Internal Revenue Service is extending two of its pandemic-related options for taxpayers and tax professionals, indefinitely extending the ability to use electronic or digital signatures for tax ...

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