"Having a free service is the only way to really address those users." In fact our millions of users in these countries, even if they wanted to pay us, there's no way for them to actually transfer money," said Yen. "This is particularly important in countries like Iran and Russia because they are under sanctions so credit cards don't work, bank payments don't work, there's no PayPal. "I think that Calendar just gives an additional tool to make their information protected so that they can avoid prosecution and all the other things that come with having data leaks in those countries."īeing able to deliver the right impact that could make a difference in people's life is then the main reason why all Proton products, including Proton VPN, come free of charge. Yen believes that even Calendar has the potential to revolutionize how activists and human right organizations operate, especially across authoritarian countries. As a scientist, this is the reason why we created Proton in the first place," he said. All of this is a big part of our mission. We're very active in places like Hong Kong, Russia and Iran. "A lot of our users are activists, journalists and dissidents. The software has also been used to circulate videos during the recent protests in China as a way to get around censorship. What's more, the hard work that the Proton team put into this is already showing results. Its newly launched Proton Drive has seen over 1,000,000 files uploaded per day in less than two months. These include names, locations and participants.įor technical reasons, the time of the event is the only piece of information not to be encrypted. Now, any user will be able to enjoy the protection on basically all the details of each created event. Yen explained that Calendar was actually the most technically challenging product as preserving the end-to-end encryption under sharing conditions was a pretty complex feature to achieve. > Our pick of the best privacy tools around right now (opens in new tab)īuilding the software wasn't easy, though. > Discover why VPN use soars in worldwide period of unrest and warfare (opens in new tab) Proton VPN rolls out obfuscated VPN protocol to evade censorship (opens in new tab)
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