Proton’s CTO: No company is going to jail for you

We’ve got the first of a two-part series on the systems that run the world: I’m talking today with Bart Butler, the CTO of Proton, the company that makes private and secure productivity software.

There’s a lot of big Decoder themes in this one. That includes how Proton has structured its ownership and architected its products to align its incentives with protecting users. At the same time, Proton faces new challenges and pressures, both at home in Switzerland and from the EU and US government that are putting its values to the test.

Links:

• Proton now offers an entire bundle of office services | The Verge
• Proton Mail helped FBI unmask anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ protester | 404Media
• Proton says it will leave Switzerland if this controversial law Is passed | Vice
• Age verification is a mess but we’re doing it anyway | The Verge
• Let’s build a children’s public internet | The Verge
• Let me see some ID: age verification is spreading across the internet | The Verge
• Why Chat Control 1.0 is the EU's most Orwellian law yet | Euronews

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