Given how common email is unencrypted by design, I can't see how they can do much more than what we do ourselves. That is, you wouldn't send your bank login and password in an email so while the service could be watching for that, and then they could sell it as a service I can't see how they can do more than what we do ourselves.
Can I be very blunt and write that any email is about as private as a post card in the mail? Actually less private as you know our governments get a copy.
Bob
I've heard mentions here and there to email clients that protect your privacy, but it's hard to determine if any of them are actually good.
Does anyone have any recommendations? I'm not concerned with encrypting or anything like that, I'm not a spy, but GMail's collection and reading of all of my emails kind of creeps me out. Maybe they're not using them now, but having all of my emails collected in a database somewhere for future rifling through unnerves me a bit.
Maybe I just don't know how email works, but are there any that just let you send and receive emails without spying on you? I assume data mining is something I'll have to accept with all of them, but I'd prefer it to not be a massive collection of all of my personalized information.
Thanks!

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