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Apple's anti-competitive App Store policies are gouging consumers, enabling censorship, and harming privacy-focused developers. We're joining a lawsuit to restore internet freedom.
Just as Big Oil has used greenwashing to block environmental protections, Big Tech uses privacy washing to stand in the way of privacy.
Big Tech companies - Apple, Google, and Meta - have built a mass surveillance machine that the government can easily tap into.
Big Tech (Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft)'s annual revenue dwarfs total fines. The cost for privacy is insignificant to them.
Here’s how Big Tech is trying to give itself immunity from government oversight through the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework.
We raised over $1 million this year to directly support organizations on the front lines of the fight for online privacy and freedom.
To ensure our mission always comes first, Proton is transitioning to a non-profit structure and formalizing our promise of people before profits.