
While it started as a local conflict, it quickly became a symbolic campaign. They want to fight against gentrification, real estate speculation, Airbnb and high-end restaurants. While ProtonMail didn’t cooperate with French authorities, French police sent a request to Swiss police via Europol to force the company to obtain the IP address of one of its users.įor the past year, a group of people have taken over a handful of commercial premises and apartments near Place Sainte Marthe in Paris.

The company has communicated widely about the incident, stating that it doesn’t log IP addresses by default and it only complies with local regulation - in that case Swiss law. When adding a new user (new window), turn the Private switch on.ProtonMail, a hosted email service with a focus on end-to-end encrypted communications, has been facing criticism after a police report showed that French authorities managed to obtain the IP address of a French activist who was using the online service. How to designate a new user as a private user The administrator cannot change their password for them. If a private user loses or forgets their password, they must reset it using their recovery email address. To do this, you would need to delete the user account entirely and then recreate it.
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Administrators will not be able to access a private user’s messages.Īdministrators cannot change a private user into a non-private user. A private user’s messages can only be accessed with that user’s login credentials. Proton Mail cannot access the emails of ANY user of your organization, including non-private users.Īs an administrator, you can designate a user as a private user when you add them or at a later time. Only administrators can access the messages of your organization’s non-private users. This might be desirable for employee oversight and compliance reasons. īy default, all users are non-private, which means their emails can be read by any organization administrator (new window). These users can be either non-private users or private users.

If you have a Proton for Business (new window) plan, you can create an organization (new window) and add users (new window) to it.
