Proton is adding an end-to-end encrypted documents editor to its privacy tools, boosting its competition with Google’s suite of productivity apps.
When particle physicist Andy Yen launched the privacy-focused email service Proton Mail as an ambitious crowdfunding campaign in 2014, the ultimate goal was to make it easier for people to be private online. Now, more than a decade on, his Switzerland-based company, Proton, is in the process of taking one of its biggest potential steps to reduce Google ’s online dominance.
In April, Proton acquired encrypted note-taking app Standard Notes, which is a separate product from Docs. “It's actually not ‘take Standard Notes and stick it into Proton,’” Yen says, adding that the encryption architecture of the two were different, and Proton Docs is “more or less a ground-up, clean build in Proton’s ecosystem on our software stack.” .
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