Here is an article that talks about it and suggests other solutions.
Translation from:
https://democratie-participative.biz/a-propos-de-protonmail/
"The day before yesterday, a far-left organization revealed that Protonmail had given the French cops the IP address of an account created by a Parisian activist.
The problem is that Protonmail claimed not to collect IPs "by default". This ambiguous wording made us think that there was no log. In fact, there can be logs if the Swiss authorities ask for them, which happened here after a request from the French cops via Europol.
This is a problem when you live on French territory and you are a political opponent, the French government repressing more and more brutally any form of protest, even peaceful.
If you systematically use a VPN or Tor, or both at the same time, it doesn't matter. The problem is that people are lazy or lazy and generally don't take these kinds of measures seriously.
In the abstract, Protonmail can still be used, provided you use a VPN or the Tor Browser with your Tor onion when you create your account. But it seems that this second option is particularly ineffective because this company has not sought to rigorously develop this capability.
For those of you with a Protonmail address, there's no reason to be particularly concerned, especially if you're browsing with a VPN or Tor. The cops have to request surveillance of a specific address and the only thing they can get is the IP address of the account. Not the content of emails sent or received.
Of course, you don't have to go for the paid offer so that your payment information is not disclosed.
So much for the technical dimension.
On the substance, Protonmail has vaguely lied by omission. The company assures its customers that its model doesn't keep IPs when it has them if the EU cops ask. Protonmail should be punished for that, for hiding from the target person that he or she was the subject of such surveillance and for not explicitly saying that the company, although Swiss, had subordinated itself to Europol's orders - and not just to the Swiss authorities.
As a matter of principle, we decided to leave Protonmail for the encrypted mailbox Ctemplar, located in Iceland, using the Tor protocol.
We invite people who want to change their email address to do the same, especially people who are active in the field.
Ask for an invitation code (
[email protected] ). It takes about 12 hours to receive one.
Download and launch the Tor Browser before logging into their onion to create an account.
You can import all of your contacts after downloading them from your old mailbox.
After that, you should never, under any circumstances, log into your Ctemplar account with a regular browser. The idea is that in case of a request from the French cops, Ctemplar will only be able to provide an unusable IP generated by Tor. When you check your email, you open the Tor browser, connect to the Ctemplar onion, and that's it.
In addition, you can use the online chat service Session Messenger, which runs on Tor. It doesn't require an email address or phone number to sign up. You get a login that you give to others to find you on the network.
You can also use Ricochet Refresh to receive ultra-secure messages. There are no logs, no metadata, nothing is kept. It also works on Tor. Again, you give your email id to the person you want to chat with.
Remember, you're not there to make the cops' or the Jews' job easier."
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