I have a protonmail account. When I log in to the interface, I see the body of emails, without providing any key on the client (not that it'd help since the client is a generic browser running their website code). This implies the process exists to recover the body of my emails. Also, I type in the password in their web UI in cleartext - there's no other way to gain access - which means they also have access to my cleartext password and could be forced to disclose it to the third parties. So unless you provide some contrary evidence, your assertion is false.
PM mails are encrypted with PGP at rest, as is metadata. The police can request to log incoming and outgoing mail metadata if available but not retroactively.
Right, if you trust that they only store the encrypted version. But the comment at the top of the thread is talking about logging once the police are interested in you. At that point they can log anything you send to them (or somebody else sends to them), including plaintext emails.
Yes, but it's hardly surprising that criminal investigations tend to evaporate some privacy standards very quickly. ProtonMail doesn't want to get hit by the stick too.
And before anyone suggests that PM should have been more "open/honest" about this, I disagree, the fact that a criminal investigation will do this is well known and mentioning it would be akin to asking your bank to plaster "if the world economy implodes, we might not be able to pay out your account" all over their frontpages.
