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PayPal freezes account of email encryption startup ProtonMail
ProtonMail was supposed to be an easy email encryption tool that would finally give us an answer to Internet surveillance around the world. Instead, PayPal has frozen over $275,000 in donations to the project because, a PayPal representative told the company, the American payment service is not sure if ProtonMail is legal. Of course, it is absolutely legal to encrypt email. The freeze remains in place.
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They got access back. Posted RL.
Gotta love the power of the internet in moments like these. :-)
Gotta stand united.
Well that was an infuriating read. Why does PayPal even have an opinion? That's the part I don't understand? As far as I know their only role is to process funds. What does Pierre Omidyar get out of such decisions? If anyone knows more I would be interested in learning.
Unfortunately Paypal is a business, and they can make these types of decisions to protect their image/service. Having said that... they are doing it all wrong, and instead of protecting their image, they are hurting it by being dicks. This is the type of company that I can see is in bed with the government, its too bad things got this bad.
Agreed, there really is no other explanation other than they have a vested interest (i.e. government lobbying / influence) in making sure we don't have access to secure/private e-mail communication.