The new version of the Ordinance on the Surveillance of Correspondence by Post and Telecommunications (OSCPT) aims to extend surveillance obligations to those offering services such as e-mail, messaging, social networking, and VPNs.
- As of 5,000 users, the ordinance requires operators to identify users by means of a form of identification. The operator must keep this information for 6 months after the end of the relationship (Article 19). For example, an association running a mastodon server would have to identify users if it exceeded 5,000.
- The ordinance seeks to impose the decryption of communications when the operator possesses one of the encryption keys (Article 50a).
At least (2) can be dealt with technically - don't possess one of the keys.
That's Protonmail, right?
Dang.
Yep.