Proton, then, is offering a far more simple pitch: your data is always encrypted, and it's not being used to connect other (often ad-driven) services or, as is often the case, round out a heap of user data. (A summary-friendly policy for personal Outlook accounts was not something the author could provide at this time.) Advertisement Apple's iCloud security/privacy policy is broader and not as readily broken down into individual apps, but it's similar regarding encryption. Encryption protects your calendar data from government requests, data leaks, or "a change in business model of your cloud provider."įor its part, Google, the 800-pound gorilla of calendar data syncing, says that Google Calendar data is "encrypted in-transit and at-rest," using "strong industry standards and practices." But Google has your name, email address, and phone number, and Calendar "uses data to improve your experience" and saves "some location info," search queries, and other activity. Proton also notes that it never finds out who you've invited to an event, and it allows for inviting people outside the Proton ecosystem, letting people "cryptographically verify that it was you who invited them."Īndy Yen, CEO of Proton, said in an interview with Wired in May that calendars are an "extremely sensitive" record of your life and that protecting them is essential. The web app version of Proton Calendar is open source, with the code for mobile apps to come next, Proton says. Proton Calendar is pitched as offering encryption for all event details, as well as "high-performance elliptic curve cryptography (ECC Curve25519)" to lock it.
Proton Calendar, which claims to be the "world's only" calendar using end-to-end encryption and cryptographic verification, has arrived on iOS, giving those seeking a more secure work suite an alternative to Google, Apple, and the like.
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