- Proton Drive gets new E2EE suggestion mode
- The Swiss company says it is seriously committed to safe cooperation
- Users gain more control over sharing with Proton Drive
Proton has announced even more encryption for its cloud storage solution as it looks to improve productivity and collaboration for users around the world.
The company has rolled out Suggesting Mode for its web-based and Proton Drive-based word processor Docs, making it the “first and only” encrypted collaboration feature of its kind.
By introducing end-to-end encryption, Proton hopes to have an advantage over competitors such as Google Docs and Notion, which do not yet offer E2EE.
Proton improves encryption for Drive and Docs
In its announcement, the company cited external research showing that two-fifths of data stored on Google Drive contains sensitive information. The same is likely true for other cloud storage drives, including OneDrive, iCloud Drive, and Dropbox.
As a collaboration tool for Docs, Suggestion Mode allows users to suggest edits without changing the original text and keep a log of changes, including version history.
More broadly in Drive, Proton is rolling out public links, giving users control over things like expiration dates and reader permissions.
Like Google Drive online, the Proton Drive Windows app has also gained a new Shared with Me feature that allows you to easily find documents shared by colleagues without having to search through emails.
Additionally, Proton says its “commitment to continually improving the user experience” is reflected in its “rapid progress” – other recent changes include PDF export capabilities, keyboard shortcuts, a word count tool and more formatting options.
“This commitment to secure collaboration is at the heart of our mission: to ensure complete privacy when editing and commenting on documents – so secure that even we can’t access your data,” said Anant Vijay Singh, Product Lead for Proton Drive.
The news comes shortly after the company confirmed it would launch Proton VPN for Windows ARM devices following successful beta testing.