Delhi HC raises questions again about Proton Mail use in India; directs MHA, police to examine

The Delhi High Court on October 23 again asked the Delhi Police and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to look into the alleged use of email address/service “proton.me” or “Proton Mail” in India.

The end-to-end encrypted email service, headquartered in Switzerland as Proton AG, has zero-access encryption which means not even Proton can view the content of an individual’s email, it claims. While the government mulled blocking Proton Mail in February this year in response to a spate of hoax bomb threats in India, the service issued a statement in March clarifying that it was still available in India.