Breaking news

Next Monday the EU Commission will present unprecedented legislation that would require online service providers to automatically and indiscriminately monitor digital correspondence and data for potential child sexual exploitation material. This would make all of your communication via chat and email subject to mass surveillance. But the truth is: There are better ways to save the children than putting every EU citizen under constant surveillance, and we have data that proves this.

Today we are very excited that our desktop clients for Windows, MacOS and Linux are going to end their beta phase. We first published the desktop clients in December 2018. Two and a half years later, the clients are so advanced that they are ready to be used by every Tutanota user.

The new German government wants to change the German data retention regulation so that it complies with European and German constitutional privacy rights. The top European Court has now decided that such a change is necessary asap. Any storage of telecommunications data without any reason must be prohibited. This is very good news and it sends a clear signal to the world: Your right to privacy is being respected in Germany!

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has just issued an amazing ruling on data retention: Your telephone and online communication data must not be stored without cause, which makes data retention illegal in Europe. The ruling comes after a lawsuit issued by German telecommunication providers Deutsche Telekom and SpaceNet. Now we must keep fighting data retention laws worldwide!

Since seven years already we are translating Tutanota into more than 30 languages with the help of numerous volunteers who - like ourselves - want to spread privacy within their communities. Being able to use Tutanota in people's native tongue has already helped millions around hte world to switch to our privacy-first email service. Now, you can be part of this exciting journey! Help us translate Tutanota by joining our open source translation project.