Proton Drive: It’s like Google Docs, but with end-to-end encryption

Those that would possibly need to get out from beneath Google’s ecosystem obtained some excellent news from Proton on Wednesday.

Particularly, the privacy-focused software program firm’s Proton Drive suite of merchandise obtained a brand new one within the type of a shared textual content editor known as Proton Docs. Proton Drive’s textual content editor appears very just like Google Docs, in that a number of individuals can edit a doc collectively in real-time with strong modifying instruments. However, per Proton, this editor has end-to-end encryption on every part, together with cursor actions.

Proton claims that is the primary “main doc editor” with E2E encryption turned on by default. The announcement weblog put up additionally has bolded textual content to warn that knowledge you retailer in one thing like Google Drive “could even be used to coach AI sooner or later.” Whereas Google would not at present use your Docs to coach its AI fashions (per The Verge), Proton appears to be positioning itself as an organization that may by no means try this, versus one which would possibly sometime.

Regardless, Proton Docs is free so long as you make a Proton Drive account.