Proton is rapidly improving its powerful tools for privacy protection
With privacy seemingly under attack while human rights erode everywhere, it may be time to take a look at products from Switzerland’s privacy-focused Proton, a company on a mission to deliver powerful tools that protect privacy while also pushing productivity. It now offers a wide range of solutions for mail, online storage, passwords and network security with Proton VPN.
Proton has improved all its product in recent months.
How Proton has improved
Recently gained shareable links which lets you collaborate on folders and files with others without requiring them to have a Proton account. This basically means files or folders remain encrypted even when being shared and worked on with others. This collaboration is also boosted with the introduction of email notifications to inform you of new comments and replies. Proton Docs also supports notifications when collaborating on work.
Mac users now have a new Mac app for Proton Drive, this offers double the upload and download speeds provided by the previous application and has a host of usability features to make it much easier to get what you need done. There’s also a Windows ARM version of the application so you can continue to work with PC users.
There seems to be a growing need for VPN support across consumer and enterprise users. After all, not only are time politically tough, but as governments wage war against encryption there’s a good chance we’ll soon see the security situation decay. Having an effective VPN helps protect against some, though sadly, not all, of the consequences of that. The company also introduced a VPN app for the Apple TV last year. With an updated Windows application, Proton has also introduced a prand new VPN UI for iOS users. This is cool because it makes it so much easier to access favorite or recent locations and personalize settings.
Later this summer, the company will add a Category view to quickly sort emails; enabling people to more easily track and manage subscriptions, and to unsubscribe from them. We’re also building new Proton Mail apps for iOS and Android, improving Proton Calendar (particularly the iOS app), and adding new solutions for businesses.
More is coming
The company has also published a road map detailing improvements it intends to make to further secure the privacy of its users. These include things like split tunnelling so some apps can be excluded from VPN protection and tools to help protect against phishing, and support for secure file storage within Proton Pass. But with privacy under attack, it seemed a valuable opportunity to introduce Proton’s products, given these are uniquely protected by Swiss privacy laws.
All told, these solutions offer a good balance of privacy and utility, and seem worth exploring.
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