On Privacy Day, European end-to-end encrypted services ProtonMail, Threema, Tresorit and Tutanota are calling on EU
policy makers to rethink proposals made in December’s Council Resolution on Encryption.
Home office has become the standard for many employees since the start of the COVID19 pandemic. While
lock downs in Europe and the USA were eased over the summer, many are now advised to stay home once again.
For working remotely, however, we need tools that keep us and our data safe.
WhatsApp has issued a new privacy policy that forces users to share their WhatsApp data with Facebook - the mother
company of WhatsApp. As a result users are flocking to Signal - the most popular encrypted and privacy-friendly chat
app. This has also spiked new sign-ups at Tutanota, the most secure email service with a strong focus on privacy and
open source.
AMP is an attempt by Google to colonize free platforms such as web and email. Google does not want to make your
mailbox faster, but they want to control every aspect of it.
Google's excuse is that the mobile web is too slow and because of that we need a special Google-designed web: AMP.
The US antitrust complaint against Google now shows that the claim 'to improve speed with AMP' is false.
An email alias is an additional email address that you can use for a special purpose. Tutanota lets you add five or
more aliases in any of the paid versions. You can use these alias email addresses for receiving and sending
secure emails. In this post,
we have collected everything you need to know about email aliases, including a quick video on how to set
up aliases in Tutanota.
The holiday season is starting and we have the perfect gift idea for you: Tutanota! You can now give privacy
by purchasing Tutanota gift cards for your family and friends. Claim up to 10 gift
cards now and make sure everyone gets a secure mailbox in 2021.
This summer, Tutanota has been under repeated and constantly changing DDoS attacks. But instead of turning their back
on Tutanota, our community united to fight the good fight with us. An incredible number of upgrades as well as extensive
donations have enabled us to employ our 14th team member. Please welcome Jonas with us!
Only five days after the terrorist attack, the EU Council of Ministers is proposing a draft to backdoor
WhatsApp, Signal and other encrypted messenger apps to combat terrorism. While this looks like politicians have
just been waiting for another attack to present their newest surveillance bill, let's look at the facts of this particular case:
Would Austrian authorities have been able to stop the Vienna terrorist attack, had they had access to the encrypted chat
history of the terrorist prior to the attack?
Almost all votes are counted, and it looks like Joe Biden is going to be the next President of the United States of
America. This has a huge impact on lots of
issues, and also on the ongoing crypto wars between privacy defenders and state surveillance advocates. So how would a new
presidency affect encryption? What can we expect from Joe Biden?
We are excited to let you know that Tutanota is growing more rapidly than ever: In the last two months alone, we have on-boarded
four new team members. Please welcome with us John, Tim, Patrik and Valentin (not in the picture).
Data from the USA and Europe show that mass surveillance does not help to stop terrorist attacks. Yet, the
authorities continue to rely on surveillance technology like facial recognition and location tracking. Instead we must
focus on our human rights and protect what is important to keep the power with the people: Our right to privacy and
freedom of speech.
Last night multiple DNS providers were attacked to take down Tutanota. In combination with wrongly cached DNS entries
for the tutanota.com domain at different DNS servers, this led to a downtime of several hours for millions of
Tutanota users. We had switched DNS entries, but as the propagation takes time, some users did not get access to Tutanota immediately.
