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Originally Posted by JSWolf
How do you know your ISP email is private?
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I don't. Which is why I never send anything even remotely sensitive or that I want kept private via email, or via a text message either, for that matter.
However, Gmail has
admitted to scanning users email as a routine practice to harvest keywords for advertising use, while my ISP has not admitted to this practice. So there's that. But I agree, this doesn't prove that my ISP is not scanning emails. I know that Gmail IS scanning emails - they have said so themselves - so my email account there is relegated to the spam-sucker category.
Ironically, I do have encrypted email set up using a different Gmail account (but not many people to communicate with in an encrypted manner, unfortunately). However, I use end-to-end encryption that is totally out of Google's control. All encryption/decryption is done on the user end. By the time Google sees any emails they are already encrypted. Google of course knows WHO I send encrypted emails to and who sends them to me, because the email headers aren't encrypted (other than the Subject line). Unencrypted headers are necessary for the email to be delivered in the first place. But Google can't access the contents of those emails. I could use proxies and TOR for additional privacy but I don't consider that necessary for my needs. Google already knows the people I send encrypted emails to - they are the same people I send normal unencrypted emails to.