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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
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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 s
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 (IS
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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 vulne
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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
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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 w
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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 c
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The VPN industry is notorious for unscrupulous or even malicious players, so
it’s reasonable to ask why Proton VPN can be trusted. Here are some qualities
that set us apart from other VPN providers.
In 2017, Proton entered the VPN space with the lau
STARTING THIS WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY, PROTON VPN WILL BE OFFERING DISCOUNTS TO
DATA JOURNALISTS THROUGH THE EUROPEAN JOURNALISM CENTRE’S NEW WEBSITE,
DATAJOURNALISM.COM.
This April, the European Journalism Centre launched DataJournalism.com to help
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AS PART OF OUR MISSION TO MAKE A SECURE AND PRIVATE INTERNET AVAILABLE TO ALL,
PROTON VPN WILL HAVE TO ADD SERVERS IN COUNTRIES WITH POOR PRIVACY PROTECTIONS.
HERE’S HOW TO SAFELY USE SERVERS IN HIGH-RISK COUNTRIES.
Which VPN server you connect to i
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THIS YEAR, WE RECEIVED RECOGNITION FOR SOME OF THE UNIQUE ADVANTAGES THAT OUR
VPN SERVICE OFFERS. HERE ARE SOME OF THE AWARDS FOR 2018 AND 2019 THAT WERE JUST
ANNOUNCED.
We are happy to receive these awards, not only because they acknowledge the
ext