Our customers often wonder why they should use a service based in Switzerland. Here’s why:
Privacy Laws: Swiss privacy laws are among the strongest, offering high data protection and user privacy by default, which can be appealing for sensitive or confidential communications.
Trust and Reputation: Switzerland’s neutrality and ProtonMail’s reputation enhance trust for security-conscious customers.
No U.S. Data Residency: Storing your data with a non-US cloud provider ensures your right to privacy as you will not be subject to laws like the CLOUD Act, which gives the U.S. government access to data stored by U.S. companies, even if overseas.
Bitcreed strongly believes in American values and the American Constitutional Rights such as limited government. Crime should be prosecuted but as long as you’re not engaged in illegal activities, you also shouldn’t be subject to search and seizure.
Legal Compliance: Proton will comply with foreign government requests as required under Swiss law and Switzerland will assist foreign governments in prosecution, if the alleged crime is also criminal under Swiss laws.
Case studies that show that the data available from Proton even in the case of compliance is very limited. Check out Proton’s blog for details: https://proton.me/blog/climate-activist-arrest
Proton also publishes a yearly transparency report on https://proton.me/legal/transparency