Email Privacy Debate
The cluster discusses the lack of inherent privacy in email, particularly when using third-party providers like Gmail, and debates alternatives such as self-hosting, encryption, or accepting no expectation of privacy.
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I dont view email has a "private" service in the first place, if you want privacy in communications use something other than email
You shouldn't keep your emails too private.
Haven't such users already "given up" their privacy by having their email hosted by a third party?
Aren’t you disclosing your emails to third parties by using something like Gmail?
If that is your issue, then a better way is to have your own server, encrypt your emails and ask your contacts to do also. Once your mails are hosted once on a server, you can't know where you data goes and how long it stays there. One minute is more than enough to archive an email on a warehouse.
Store your plaintext email on someone else's server. Act surprised it's not private.
Why? Email addresses are already public, what are you protecting here?
That seems somewhat worse, they used private email on servers they did not control?
Well, I don’t want anybody to get access to my emails.I understand that if they would spend any effort they could easily get access (via breaking my phone or bones), but I don’t want to voluntarily send over my emails.(Happy proton subbcriber; that would change if those allegations would appear true)
So? You have no expectation of privacy in email anyway, right?