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Proton is letting parents reserve a child’s email before birth

Ellsworth Toohey
Apr 13, 2026
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By the time most kids are old enough to understand what a privacy policy says, they’ve already spent years inside Gmail. Proton is now offering a different path: parents can reserve a Proton Mail address for a child and keep it sealed — no inbox, no activity logs, no profiling — for up to 15 years, until the kid is ready to …

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