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一起守護香港的自由和民主

July 21st, 2020 in Proton Stories

Read this article in English. 香港正面臨黑暗的日子。7 月 6 日深夜,香港政府強推一系列措施,公然侵害私隱、加強審查,並打壓言論自由。自治、民主的香港,從此蕩然無存。 自由之戰向來無分國界,若要成功,我們必先聯成一線。香港這場戰鬥,就是世界的戰鬥,我們每個人都義無反顧,定當站在香港的一方。今天,為了捍衛民主、私隱和言論自由,我們正式宣布一項新的籌款活動。 我們將會捐出 2020 年 7、8 月份香港業務的一半收益,以支援兩個本地民權團體,分別是:612 人道支援基金,以及攬炒團隊(Stand With Hong Kong)。 活動期間,我們希望籌得逾 1,000,000 港元,為捍衛香港自由一役略盡綿力。截至 2020 年 7 月 20 日,是次籌款活動暫籌得 171,000 元。 為何香港急需我們的支持 自 1997 年,香港在《基本法》保障人民基本權利的條件下,成為了中國的特別行政區。儘管這些法律保障獲得國際認可,中國當局仍屢屢蠶蝕香港的自由。香港人民為了竭力守護他們享有的自由,紛紛走上了街頭。 為了鎮壓示威運動,中國在 6 月 30 日通過《港區國家安全法》,訂立沒有清晰定義的「顛覆國家政權」罪名,為中國在香港行使鐵腕政治手段鋪路,這些手段包括奧威爾式審查、無手令下擅闖民居搜查、對政治囚犯進行秘密審判、強迫他們認罪,甚至動用私刑。是次頒布的法例,以及在 7 月 6 日公佈的實施細則,從根本上扭轉了香港的局勢。事實上,中國的「防火長城」現已可伸向香港,而抗爭者亦將隨時遭到肆意拘留和刑事起訴。 我們 Proton 亦察覺到這些影響。香港人已長年透過 Proton Mail 和 Proton VPN,保障自己的網絡通訊和網上活動免受政府監控。7 月 6 日起,Proton VPN […]

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Help us defend democracy and freedom in Hong Kong

July 21st, 2020 in Proton Stories

按此瀏覽中文全文 These are dark days for Hong Kong. On July 6, in the middle of the night, Hong Kong’s governing body effectively destroyed the idea of an autonomous, democratic Hong Kong by imposing a series of measures designed to eliminate privacy, sharpen censorship, and curb freedom of speech. The cause of freedom has no borders, […]

We are not abandoning Hong Kong

We are not abandoning Hong Kong

July 16th, 2020 in Proton Stories

Update: Our Hong Kong campaign is now underway. Learn more about how you can support freedom in Hong Kong. On July 6, Chinese authorities forced through Article 43, a collection of new regulations that gave Hong Kong law enforcement sweeping online surveillance and censorship powers. These rules are an extension of China’s National Security Law, […]

Proton VPN supports Hong Kong’s right to digital freedom

May 22nd, 2020 in Proton Stories

A Chinese language overview of Proton published in Taiwan can be found here: https://www.twreporter.org/a/protonmail-project Last week, we stood in solidarity with citizens in the US against the reauthorization of the USA Freedom Act. Today we are standing in solidarity with the people of Hong Kong after the Chinese government announced a new security law designed […]

Vodafone, TalkTalk, and Virgin Media have blocked ProtonVPN even though UK regulatory authorities have ruled that VPN services should not be actively blocked.

Vodafone, TalkTalk, and Virgin Media are unlawfully blocking Proton VPN

December 20th, 2019 in Proton Stories

Following months of inaction from Vodafone, TalkTalk, and Virgin Media, we are making a public appeal to them to lift their block on our VPN services or face a formal complaint to Ofcom, the UK telecoms regulator. These Internet service providers (ISPs) have blocked the Proton VPN website since early August, even though the British […]

Statement from Proton VPN regarding CVE-2019-14899

December 13th, 2019 in Proton Stories

On Dec. 4, security researchers at the IT security site SecLists announced a security flaw known as CVE-2019-14899 that affects all VPNs that use the OpenVPN protocol and most VPNs that use the IKEv2/IPSec protocol In narrow circumstances. This vulnerability cannot be used for mass surveillance. It allows attackers to actively probe (or “guess”) what […]

Learn how to identify and how to delete fake apps.

Beware of fake apps pretending to be Proton VPN

September 19th, 2019 in Proton Stories

Recently, we have noticed an uptick in the number of fake Proton VPN apps. Hackers create fake versions of popular applications, like Evernote, Signal, and Proton VPN, to smuggle malware onto unsuspecting users’ devices. Once they are downloaded, the malware contained in these fake apps can unleash ads all over your device, take control of […]

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All the Internet shutdowns of 2019 so far

June 26th, 2019 in Proton Stories

The Internet is one of the few places where information can spread freely, which might explain why authoritarian governments are blocking it more often. We look at some of the countries that have suffered Internet blackouts this year. This article was updated on July 10, 2019, to reflect recent events in Sudan. It is still […]

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Tell us where to install our next servers!

May 30th, 2019 in Proton Stories

Our last server poll was such a success that we are holding another! This is your chance to decide where we should place our new VPN servers. It has been almost a year since we held our last server poll, in which nearly 13,000 of you told us which countries to install Proton VPN servers […]

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