What is the expectation here? That the companies would refuse to comply with an (apparently legal) governmental information request? What justification would they use?
Wire and especially Proton seem to have gone to the limits of their ability to enable their users to be anonymous, and the weak link was the user's own inclusion of the recovery address.
Obviously Apple (and Google, and Meta, and Microsoft, etc) will have more information about their users, but I don't think it's a common expectation that those kinds of services are anonymous.
If we're unhappy with the outcome here, I think it's a legislative question, not a technical one.
Wire and especially Proton seem to have gone to the limits of their ability to enable their users to be anonymous, and the weak link was the user's own inclusion of the recovery address.
Obviously Apple (and Google, and Meta, and Microsoft, etc) will have more information about their users, but I don't think it's a common expectation that those kinds of services are anonymous.
If we're unhappy with the outcome here, I think it's a legislative question, not a technical one.