Security News > 2023 > January > Cloud email services bolster encryption against hackers

To address these challenges, Google, Microsoft and Proton, whose Proton Mail service was a first-mover in secure email, both moved to expand end-to-end encryption offerings.

Google's announcement followed that of Proton, an encrypted cloud storage platform launched in 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland by CEO Andy Yen.

Proton Drive, which became available in late September as a free encrypted cloud service and was released on iOS and Android in December, lets users securely upload, save, and share files to and from their phone.

For individual users, Proton offers a free tier of its encrypted drive with 1GB of cloud storage, plus two additional levels of service for a price: Drive Plus with 200GB storage is $4.99/month or $47.88 per year, and Proton Unlimited with 500GB for $11.99/month or $119.88 per year.

"We're seeing huge demand for encrypted services - that's why over 70 million people have signed up to private services like Proton, and it proves that surveillance capital isn't the only business model that works in tech," said the spokesperson.

The company, which also offers Proton VPN, which competes with the likes of AtlasVPN, Nord, Express and HIDEme, has a two-fold rationale for creating Proton Calendar, according to the spokesperson: First, since a calendar is a repository of sensitive time and location user data, it constitutes a threat target; second, it's part of Proton's larger secure cloud services strategy.

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