Encrypted email service Lavaboom was forced to close down in the U.S. after the FBI pressured the company to reveal data from its users, including whistleblower Edward Snowden.
The company relaunched in Germany, hoping tighter privacy laws would prevent the company from having to give up its mission to protect the email data of its users. However, not the company has
shut down again. Despite popularity among users, the company was the subject of a German criminal investigation. Details of the investigation have remained private and
the investigation itself has scared off investors, and thus the company imploded.
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