Comment by CalChris

Wasn't this a form of fraud? I don't know what the Swiss law is but in the United States, fraud is both a civil tort and criminal wrong. The elements of a fraud are:

  1) the making of a statement
  2) the falsity of the statement
  3) an intent to deceive
  4) reasonable reliance on the statement by the injured party
  5) injury sustained as the result of the reliance

ProtonMail knowingly told this activist 'we don't log your IP' in order to attract their business. ProtonMail did log the IP address. The activist believed this and got arrested.