After the Tchap project based on Matrix, the French Prime Minister asks anyone in the gouvernement to use Olvid, the only app validated by the ANSSI, with metadata encryption and no centralised architecture nor contacts discovery. But only the front-ends are open source, not the back-end.
Wasn’t also France behind a lawsuit in Switzerland that got Protonmail to start spying on its users?
I hadn’t heard about that one but I’m not surprised.