Russia blocked ProtonMail last year after police departments received several fake bomb threats they say were sent using ProtonMail, but it wasn't successfully blocked for long. Criminals will be able to continue doing what they're doing while Russians will lose a valuable tool for protecting their privacy, they say. The representative says the people sending these threats will simply use another service while ProtonMail is blocked, and this decision will "not be effective if the perpetrators were located outside of Russia." The company also believes these criminals will be able to get around the block using a VPN. Despite the Government’s claims that we refused its request for assistance, no communications have yet been received from the Russian authorities," a spokesperson for ProtonMail tells Inverse. We are reaching out to the appropriate authorities to get the block lifted as soon as possible. “We have received reports that ProtonMail and ProtonVPN are currently partially blocked in Russia. Russia claims it asked ProtonMail to help identify the people behind these threats and that the company did not comply, but representatives of ProtonMail claim this is not true. The government claims it did this because it believes ProtonMail has been used to send fake bomb threats that could not be traced. The Russian government has officially blocked access to the popular encrypted email service ProtonMail.
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