Proton Adds Proton Calendar, Proton Drive, and Proton VPN Encrypted Features

He recently spoke to WIRED about the enduring need for greater privacy, the dangers of Apple's and Google's dominance, and how today’s attacks on encryption recall the rhetorical tactics of the War on Terror.This interview has been condensed and lightly edited.WIRED: You're in the online privacy business. Because fundamentally, we believe the best way to protect user data is to not have it in the first place.If you ask someone, “Would you like more privacy or less?” they always say more. But a lot of people argue that privacy and competition are in conflict. Apple will say, “If you force us to allow more competition on the platform that we run, then that will reduce our control over the security and the privacy of the user. How do you think about these potential conflicts?What Apple is basically claiming is, you need to let us continue our use of app store practices because we're the only company in the world that can get privacy right. So if you want to fix the privacy issue, the best way to do it is to have more competition, because then there will be user choice, and users tend to choose what is more private, because, as you said, everybody wants more privacy.Europe’s new Digital Market Act has a controversial section requiring the biggest messaging platforms to let competitors interoperate with them, while still preserving end-to-end encryption. If you were to weaken or prohibit all of these security tools and privacy tools, then you would open the floodgate to a massive amount of cybercrime and data breaches.Proton has grown a lot over the years, but it’s still basically a rounding error compared to something like Google. But I think it provides, for the first time, a viable alternative that lets people say, “If I really want to get off of Google, I can now do it, because I have enough components to live a lot of my daily life.” For the first time, you’ll have a privacy option that’s not fully competitive with Google, but reasonably competitive, and that will start to break the dam. I don't know how it will go, but I think this is the future of privacy, and that’s why we're doing it.This is probably the first time I have ever thought about having an encrypted calendar.A calendar is essentially a record of your life: everybody you've met, everywhere you’ve been, everything that you have done.