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| 2025 |
Proton Mail
Jewish students at Columbia University discovered the Palestine Action manual on the Unity of Fields website, which referenced Proton Mail.
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| March 2025 |
ICloud
Apple reportedly made an appeal to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal regarding the UK encryption order.
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| February 21 2025 |
ICloud
Apple announced Advanced Data Protection would no longer be available to new users in the UK, and existing UK users would need to disable the feature.
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| February 7 2025 |
ICloud
US media reported Apple received a 'technical capability notice' under the UK's Investigatory Powers Act 2016, ordering them to break encryption on iCloud backups worldwide.
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| February 2025 |
Proton Mail
Released Proton Wallet, a self-custody Bitcoin wallet.
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| 2024 |
ICloud
With iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, iCloud Keychain was migrated from a settings page to a standalone app called Passwords, while maintaining sync capabilities with iCloud Keychain and the Keychain application
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| December 2024 |
Tuta
Planned transition of existing user accounts to the new TutaCrypt encryption protocol.
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| October 1 2024 |
Tuta
Tuta launched its standalone encrypted calendar app, expanding its secure communication services.
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| September 15 2024 |
Naver
Naver mobile map application began providing real-time natural disaster information service.
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| August 2024 | The company was accused of collaborating with the FSB to direct users to fake websites for the Freedom of Russia Legion and the Russian Volunteer Corps, collecting data from potential supporters. |
| July 2024 | Nebius Group sold Yandex's Russian assets to a group of Russian investors for US$5.3 billion, following international sanctions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and restrictions on foreign ownership. |
| July 2024 |
Proton Mail
Proton launched Proton Docs, a document editor, and Proton Wallet. They also released Scribe, a private AI writing assistant for Proton Mail.
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| June 2024 |
Tuta
PCMag reviews Tuta, highlighting its strong encryption and user-friendly interface, awarding it a 4 out of 5 rating.
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| June 2024 |
Proton Mail
Proton began the transition to becoming a non-profit organization.
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| May 2024 |
Proton Mail
Proton disclosed the recovery email address of a person involved in Catalan independence activism and alleged terrorism, leading to further investigation by authorities.
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| April 2024 |
Naver
Knowledge iN service was reorganized to allow continuous answer registration, remove question closure restrictions, and enable users to support preferred answers regardless of their participation status.
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| April 2024 |
Proton Mail
Proton acquired the end-to-end encrypted note-taking app Standard Notes.
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| April 2024 |
Proton Mail
Proton Mail launched a desktop app for Windows and macOS, with a Linux version in beta, available only to paying subscribers.
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| March 2024 |
Tuta
Tuta introduced TutaCrypt, a new encryption protocol replacing standard encryption methods like RSA-2048 and AES-256 for newly created accounts, integrating post-quantum cryptography features.
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| January 2024 | Gmail discontinued its 'basic HTML' version. |
| January 2024 | Yandex received 36,540 requests from the Russian government to disclose user data, a 12% increase from the prior year. |
| January 2024 |
Naver
Naver Cafe begins tracking Monthly Active Users (MAU), reporting an average of 30 million users from January to August, which represents a 10% increase from the previous year.
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| 2023 |
Naver
The news evaluation committee was indefinitely shut down following allegations of biased auditing practices.
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| 2023 |
Naver
Naver Blog gained 1.26 million new users.
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| December 2023 |
Proton Mail
Proton Mail's founder publicly vowed to challenge the Australian eSafety Commission in court to resist weakening privacy features, opposing legislation mandating law enforcement access to encrypted communications.
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| November 11 2023 |
Tuta
An ex-RCMP officer, Cameron Ortis, alleged that Tuta was being used as a honeypot for criminals, which Tuta refuted. No evidence was presented to support the claim.
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| November 7 2023 |
Tuta
Tutanota rebranded to 'Tuta', with the former domain tutanota.com now redirecting to tuta.com.
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| October 2023 |
Naver
Naver announced the beta release of its AI chatbot service, 'CLOVA X'.
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| September 2023 |
ICloud
Apple expanded iCloud storage options by adding 6 TB and 12 TB plans to existing storage tiers of 50 GB, 200 GB, and 2 TB.
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| July 2023 |
Tuta
TechRadar reviews Tuta Mail, praising it as an 'Excellent encrypted email platform' while noting limitations in customer support and storage costs.
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| July 2023 | Kinopoisk, a Yandex subsidiary, was fined 1 million rubles for showing films demonstrating non-traditional sexual relations. |
| July 26 2023 |
ICloud
Photo Stream service was completely shut down by Apple.
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| June 2023 | Yandex was fined 2 million roubles by a Moscow court for repeatedly refusing to share user information with the Federal Security Service. |
| June 26 2023 |
ICloud
Photo Stream uploads were turned off by Apple.
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| May 2023 | Yandex launched YandexGPT, a neural network analogous to ChatGPT, and implemented it in the virtual assistant Alice. |
| May 2023 |
ICloud
Apple announced the discontinuation of Photo Stream service.
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| February 2023 |
Proton Mail
Launched a major improved version of Proton Mail Bridge, allowing use with third-party email clients on Windows, macOS, and Linux while maintaining end-to-end encryption.
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| January 25 2023 | A 44 GB archive containing Yandex's source code was leaked and shared on BreachForums via BitTorrent, exposing sensitive internal technical information. |
| January 23 2023 |
ICloud
Advanced Data Protection expanded to users worldwide with iOS/iPadOS 16.3 and macOS 13.2.
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| 2022 |
Proton Mail
Proton Mail's user base grew to almost 70 million users, demonstrating substantial growth and increasing popularity of the encrypted email service.
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| December 2022 |
ICloud
Apple canceled its plans to scan iCloud Photos for child sexual abuse material.
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| December 13 2022 |
ICloud
Advanced Data Protection feature became available to U.S. customers with the release of iOS/iPadOS 16.2 and macOS 13.1.
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| December 7 2022 |
ICloud
Apple announced Advanced Data Protection for iCloud, an option to enable end-to-end encryption for most iCloud data.
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| July 28 2022 | Google rolled out Material You design to all Gmail users. |
| June 2022 | Arkady Volozh resigned as CEO and from the board of directors. |
| May 2022 |
Proton Mail
Proton rebranded from ProtonMail to Proton Mail, adding a space to the official service name.
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| April 2022 | CEO Elena Bunina resigned and moved to Israel. |
| April 2022 |
Proton Mail
ProtonMail acquired SimpleLogin, a Paris-based email aliasing service, integrating its functionality into Proton Mail.
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| March 2022 | Tigran Khudaverdyan resigned as executive director and deputy CEO after being sanctioned by the European Union for manipulating search results. |
| March 2022 |
ICloud
Apple settled a class-action lawsuit alleging misleading users about data storage on non-Apple servers.
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