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Ten years ago we have started our journey to create the most secure email service. In ten years we have grown our company from three to fifteen employees and - more importantly - from zero to millions of users around the world. Seeing so many people switch to our encrypted email is simply amazing - not just for us, but also for security on the web in general! This gives us reason to celebrate because only with strong end-to-end encryption we can protect our right to privacy!

We have updated our Android and iOS apps so that you may now open the app with fingerprint and pin unlock! This new feature is opt-in. Please check here how you can activate pin and biometrics unlock for your Tutanota app.

This week Google lost an appeal against a massive EU competition fine for squeezing rival shopping services on its search engine. The fine of € 2.4 billion was issued in 2017 because Google displayed its own price-comparison shopping service at the top of the search results, which led to a huge disadvantage to competitors. Regardless of the fine, Google still holds so much power over our search results that it defines how we view the world. This needs to change.

WhatsApp is the top dog among all chat apps, but its reputation is declining rapidly, not least because of privacy concerns. But what messaging apps are better suited as privacy-friendly alternatives? We've looked at five popular chat apps that focus on privacy and security.

On Global Encryption Day we'd like to remind everyone why backdoors are a threat to everybody's security. Politicians regularly demand that companies add backdoors to their end-to-end encrypted email and cloud services to enable law enforcement to easier prosecute criminals. To the contrary, the BlueLeaks hack of 2020 demonstrates that we need better and more encryption, not less. By demanding to break encryption, politicians are not asking us to choose between security and privacy. They are asking us to choose no security. This post explains why any encryption backdoor is - and will always be - a stupid idea.