The CLOUD Act - Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act - has recently been enacted into US federal law. It allows
US authorities to request data from American companies whether the data is stored in the US or abroad. While US cloud
services such as Google and Facebook welcome this law, it is heavily criticized by data protection experts and
privacy rights activists.
Donald Trump is not known for being a friend of the media. Now he seems to be taking up new methods to control unfavorable
journalists. The Department of Homeland Security wants to create a database of journalists and bloggers from around the
world that can be filtered by location, content and sentiment. While the DHS claims this is standard PR practice,
the alarm bells must ring. After all, surveillance is what upcoming autocrats commonly use to undermine
democracy.
We are celebrating four years of our secure mail client Tutanota!
Four years ago, today, we have published the first beta version of Tutanota, the first automatically encrypted mailbox.
Since then we have vastly improved Tutanota's performance and design, added lots of features, and built a strong and vibrant
community, all of which ensure Tutanota's lasting success.
Comcast Internet users were unable to access their Tutanota mailbox beginning of March due to Comcast blocking access
to Tutanota for around 18 hours. This outage of the Tutanota website demonstrates how
devastating the end of net neutrality could be for Internet users and start-ups alike.
Tutanota is the secure mail service that focuses on security and privacy. From its early days, Tutanota has been published as open source, licensed under GPLv3.
Only with open source software third parties can verify that we remain true to our goal: Protecting the privacy of our users
by offering the most secure email service. Now we plan to release the Tutanota app on F-Droid.
We are excited to let you know that we have updated our new beta client. With this release, we are adding important
features to the Premium version of Tutanota: You can now whitelabel Tutanota to login via your own website. You can also add
contact forms to your website that send contact requests end-to-end encrypted directly to your Tutanota mailbox.
Please welcome with us our newest team member: Anton. He has recently joined our team, and he has already proven to be
the perfect addition. As our user base is growing constantly, so is our team! We are now six enthusiastic freedom fighters
that work towards one shared goal: Protecting our right to privacy online.
This summer the US Supreme Court will decide whether US prosecutors can get hold of data stored all over the world. Experts
warn that this will jeopardize privacy rights and open the door for similar privacy intrusions from other countries such as
China and Russia.
Since the start of our fully encrypted mailbox searching encrypted data has been one of the biggest challenges.
We are very happy to announce that we as the first encrypted email application worldwide have developed secure full-text search
for encrypted data. This feature
enables everyone to easily and securely search encrypted emails and encrypted contacts
locally on their clients.
Cryptography used to be the exclusive concern of techies, geeks, and the CIA. Today, however, it seems that everybody
wants to be a crypto-expert. And the recent surge in BitCoin has further accelerated people’s interest in cryptography.
Sam Bocetta shares details on why cryptography matters and how it works.
Six years ago we have started to create the most secure email service. Today we are not only happy that we
ventured on this journey, but we are proud of what we have achieved! With tremendous support from our community we have
built a fully encrypted email client that is fast, beautiful and available in over 30 languages. So, today we are
celebrating our success, and tomorrow we'll keep on developing!
Today we have released the bug fix release 2.15.1 for our standard mail client. We have fixed an issue with downloading attachments
in the Internet Explorer 11. Mobile apps are not affected so the release is only for the web client.
