They attracted newspaper headlines when they started occupying premises rented by Le Petit Cambodge - a restaurant that was targeted by the Novemterrorist attacks in Paris. While it started as a local conflict, it quickly became a symbolic campaign.

They want to fight against gentrification, real estate speculation, Airbnb and high-end restaurants.

While ProtonMail didn’t cooperate with French authorities, French police sent a request to Swiss police via Europol to force the company to obtain the IP address of one of its users.įor the past year, a group of people have taken over a handful of commercial premises and apartments near Place Sainte Marthe in Paris. The company has communicated widely about the incident, stating that it doesn’t log IP addresses by default and it only complies with local regulation - in that case Swiss law.

ProtonMail, a hosted email service with a focus on end-to-end encrypted communications, has been facing criticism after a police report showed that French authorities managed to obtain the IP address of a French activist who was using the online service.

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