Encrypted email meets the oldest surveillance tool on Earth: billing records

You can encrypt the message all you want. Your credit card company still knows who you are.

Proton Mail markets itself as a privacy first alternative to Big Tech email, but a new case involving a “Stop Cop City” activist reminders us that encryption only protects the messages.

Payment records are a different story. Swiss authorities used a mutual legal assistance treaty to pass credit card data tied to a Proton Mail account to the FBI, revealin…