Proton is privacy obsessed. Founded by a group of scientists at CERN, the nuclear research centre outside Geneva, the company’s first product was an encrypted mail service – Proton Mail – which it unveiled in May 2014. Three years later, it launched a VPN, then an encrypted calendar in 2019, and an online-storage service in 2022.
True, you can get similar products from any number of alternative developers, but there’s a very good reason to choose Proton over many of them: its location.
The company is headquartered in Switzerland, which has some of the strictest privacy laws in the world. Moreover, while some companies choose friendly jurisdictions like Switzerland for their HQ but scatter their servers worldwide to reduce transfer times, Proton has kept everything close to home, with one…
