New “Privacy-First” Email Writing Assistant

Swiss app company Proton has introduced ‘Proton Scribe,’ an AI-powered private writing assistant that writes and proofreads emails for you. 

Why? 

Proton says that with most of us sending emails daily, finding the right words and tone can be time-consuming. Also, other popular email programs process data on remote servers, thereby posing a risk that as data is transmitted over the internet and stored on external servers, it may be susceptible to breaches, hacking, or unauthorised access. In addition to these risks, many people use online grammar checkers or AI assistants to help compose and edit emails which can be risky in terms of sensitive company or customer data potentially being shared, misused, or used to train language models.