What if you get a request from the government to hand everything over?
Because we’re based in Iceland, we have to follow Icelandic laws. That means that if we receive a warrant for a particular person that is issued in Iceland and valid there, our Icelandic director will evaluate the request. If he finds that it’s a legally valid request and reasonable, the information we have from a particular person will have to be turned over. It’s illegal in Iceland to create a “backdoor” or give anyone bulk access to the data. Because we don’t keep the key, all messages are encrypted. We can only provide whatever data we have for the user and if the user’s profile settings don’t store data on our servers, we might have an email address and that’s about it.
