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ProtonMail founder sees company riding wave of privacy, antitrust backlash against Big Tech

By Mike Swift and Michael Acton ( April 16, 2021, 20:54 GMT | Insight) -- Andy Yen, the founder and CEO of ProtonMail, said the privacy-focused, fully encrypted e-mail service recently hit 50 million users and hopes to continue to double in size each year by simply keeping its values aligned to the growing number of people worried about commercial and government surveillance. Yen sees antitrust and privacy as inextricably linked problems that stem from the global dominance of a few big US tech giants. Andy Yen, the founder and chief executive of ProtonMail, said the privacy-focused, fully encrypted e-mail service recently hit 50 million users and hopes to continue to double in size each year by simply keeping its values aligned to the growing number of people worried about commercial and government surveillance....

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