The Tutanota Transparency Report is updated every six months. We only release individual mailboxes if we receive a valid German court order. The encrypted data stored in Tutanota mailboxes can not be decrypted by us.
Between the 1st of July 2022 and 31st of December 2022 Tutanota has
- received requests for inventory data in 89 cases.
- released inventory data in 7 case.
- received requests for real time traffic data in 33 cases.
- released real time traffic data because of a German court order in 26 cases.
- received requests for stored content data in 22 cases.
- released stored encrypted content data because of a German court order in 15 cases.
- received requests for real time content data in 16 cases.
- released real time content data because of a German court order in 13 cases.
Previous Tranparency Reports
Between the 1st of January 2022 and 30th of June 2022 Tutanota has
- received requests for inventory data in 98 cases.
- released inventory data in 3 case.
- received requests for real time traffic data in 26 cases.
- released real time traffic data because of a German court order in 19 cases.
- received requests for stored content data in 24 cases.
- released stored encrypted content data because of a German court order in 11 cases.
- received requests for real time content data in 21 cases.
- released real time content data because of a German court order in 15 cases.
Between the 1st of July 2021 and 31th of December 2021 Tutanota has
- received requests for inventory data in 121 cases.
- released inventory data in 1 case.
- received requests for real time traffic data in 27 cases.
- released real time traffic data because of a German court order in 15 cases.
- received requests for stored content data in 37 cases.
- released stored encrypted content data because of a German court order in 24 cases.
- received requests for real time content data in 30 cases.
- released real time content data because of a German court order in 16 cases.
Between the 1st of January 2021 and 30th of June 2021 Tutanota has
- received requests for inventory data in 109 cases.
- released inventory data in 6 cases.
- received requests for real time traffic data in 23 cases.
- released real time traffic data because of a German court order in 13 cases.
- received requests for stored content data in 32 cases.
- released stored encrypted content data because of a German court order in 21 cases.
- received requests for real time content data in 16 cases.
- released real time content data because of a German court order in 12 cases.
Between the 1st of July 2020 and 31th of December 2020 Tutanota has
- received requests for inventory data in 92 cases.
- released inventory data in 2 cases.
- received requests for real time traffic data in 20 cases.
- released real time traffic data because of a German court order in 0 cases.
- received requests for stored content data in 37 cases.
- released stored encrypted content data because of a German court order in 34 cases.
- received requests for real time content data in 18 cases.
- released real time content data because of a German court order in 0 cases.
Between the 1st of January 2020 and 30th of June 2020 Tutanota has
- received requests for inventory data in 93 cases.
- released inventory data in 2 cases.
- received requests for real time traffic data in 5 cases.
- released real time traffic data because of a German court order in 0 cases.
- received requests for stored content data in 24 cases.
- released stored encrypted content data because of a German court order in 22 cases.
- received requests for real time content data in 5 cases.
- released real time content data because of a German court order in 0 cases.
Between the 1st of July 2019 and 31th of December 2019 Tutanota has
- received requests for inventory data in 74 cases.
- released inventory data in 5 cases.
- received requests for real time traffic data in 27 cases.
- released real time traffic data because of a German court order in 12 cases.
- lodged objections against requests for real time traffic data in 12 cases*
- received requests for stored content data in 35 cases.
- released stored encrypted content data because of a German court order in 33 cases.
- lodged objections against requests for stored encrypted content data in 33 cases*
- received requests for real time content data in 12 cases.
- released real time content data because of a German court order in 9 cases.
- lodged objections against requests for real time content data in 9 cases*
* The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) had decided on 13.06.2019 that internet based email services are not to be regarded as telecommunication services. Therefore we lodged objections against all requests that are based on the assumption that we are a telecommunication service.
Between the 1st of January 2019 and 30th of June 2019 Tutanota has
- received requests for inventory data in 59 cases.
- released inventory data in 3 cases.
- received requests for traffic data in 15 cases.
- released traffic data because of a valid German court order in 9 cases.
- received requests for stored content data in 20 cases.
- released stored encrypted content data because of a valid German court order in 18 cases.
- received requests for real time content data in 4 cases.
- released real time content data because of a valid German court order in 4 cases.
Between the 1st of July 2018 and 31th of December 2018 Tutanota has
- received requests for inventory data in 93 cases.
- released inventory data in 2 cases.
- received requests for traffic data in 15 cases.
- released traffic data because of a valid German court order in 6 cases.
- received requests for content data in 19 cases.
- released encrypted content data because of a valid German court order in 16 cases.
Between the 1st of January 2018 and 30th of June 2018 Tutanota has
- received requests for inventory data in 64 cases.
- released inventory data in 2 cases.
- received requests for traffic data in 21 cases.
- released traffic data because of a valid German court order in 15 cases.
- received requests for content data in 15 cases.
- released encrypted content data because of a valid German court order in 12 cases.
Between the 1st of July 2017 and 31th of December 2017 Tutanota has
- received requests for inventory data in 44 cases.
- released inventory data in 7 cases.
- received requests for traffic data in 15 cases.
- released traffic data because of a valid German court order in 8 cases.
- received requests for content data in 5 cases.
- released encrypted content data because of a valid German court order in 5 cases.
Between the 1st of January 2017 and 30th of June 2017 Tutanota has
- received requests for inventory data in 23 cases.
- released inventory data in 2 cases.
- received requests for traffic data in 5 cases.
- released traffic data because of a valid German court order in 2 cases.
- received requests for content data in 4 cases.
- released encrypted content data because of a valid German court order in 4 cases.
Between the 1st of July 2016 and 31st of December 2016 Tutanota has
- received requests for user data in 25 cases.
- released encrypted user data because of a valid German court order in 2 cases.
Between the 1st of January 2016 and 30th of June 2016 Tutanota has
- received requests for user data in 30 cases.
- released encrypted user data because of a valid German court order in 1 case.
Since Tutanota's launch in March 2014 until the 1st of January 2016 Tutanota has
- received requests for user data in 15 cases.
- released encrypted user data because of a valid German court order in 3 cases.
Warrant Canary
Tutanota has never received any National Security Letters or FISA court orders, and we have not been subject to any gag order by a FISA court. We have never placed any backdoors in our hardware or software and have not received any requests to do so.
We publish our web client, desktop clients and iOS & Android apps as open source so that everyone can verify that Tutanota does what we promise: Protect your encrypted emails to the maximum.
PS: The Transparency Report is updated every six months. The warrant canary is always up to date. If there was any request
stated above, we would immediately take down the canary. However, such a request is not possible according to
German law.
