The High Court in the Indian state of Karnatak has ordered to block encrypted E -mail Proton Mail across the country.
On April 29, the Supreme Court of Karnataki stated that the ruling was in response to A, Legal complaint Moser Design Associated India Pvt Ltd in January 2025 submitted.
The complaint claimed that his staff received emails containing obscene, offensive and vulgar languages, artificial intelligence (AI), generated image Level.
In A auditionThe Justice of Maga Proper ordered the Indian government “to start section in Section 69a Information Technology (IT) 2008, read Rule 10 About information technology (procedure and guarantees of public access information), 2009 to block proton mail. ”
“Until India’s government is accepted and completed, the uniform resources (URL) (…) will be blocked.”
As of writing, Proton Mail remains available in India. The Hacker News appealed to the Swiss company for comments, and we will update the story when we hear back.
This is the second time the service threatened the country. Early last year, after reports appeared that threatens threats – Note This is “strongly against the use of proton services for purposes contrary to Swiss legislation.”
While Proton is not allowed to transmit data to foreign authorities under Swiss legislation, it is obliged to respond to the orders of the Swiss authorities who can work with external agencies to resolve illegal activity.
“While encryption at the end means emails, files, files, calendar records and passwords that have strong privacy protection, you cannot use proton mail for purposes contrary to Swiss legislation,” it added.
