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Patricia Egger

Patricia Egger

Head of Security at Proton (privacy-focused Swiss tech company), co-founder and President of Women in Cyber Switzerland.

Oct 20, 2026

3:38
So let's
3:38
assume this is a person who has a bunch of smart devices all over their house.
3:43
They wake up in the morning, they have a smart alarm.
3:46
So this is giving information, you know, when do you typically wake up? How many times do you hit snooze? Maybe you're, you know, having trouble sleeping.
3:54
And so maybe some sleeping pills might be, you know, something to sell to you.
4:00
So you wake up, you get out of bed, you can move on to your smart coffee maker or smart fridge.
4:07
This gives information about what it is that you eat.
6:11
Stickers over cameras do
7:46
They're like, "Well, everybody has my information anyways." [laughs]
7:48
Exactly.
7:49
That's...
7:49
People have absolutely given up, and think, you know, "Well, everyone has it already, so why bother? I, I want the convenience," or, "I want this thing to be free, and so it's, it's fine." Um, there's so many things wrong with just saying that you have nothing to hide.
8:02
That's not what privacy is about.
8:03
I'm sure that these people still have curtains on their windows, or they have blinds, or they still close the door when they go to the bathroom.
8:09
I mean, these are all things, like you, you, you have nothing to hide, like why, why would you do this? That's not what it's about.
11:19
Talk to me about how Proton Mail works on the back end, and sort of what makes it different from other types of platforms.

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