I am trying to choose an email provider, to use with my identifying accounts (like banks, gov ids, etc.). I feel that emails for such cases do not need to be end-to-end encrypted, since most information would already be present with banks, gov, etc.

So I was looking at non-E2EE emails - Mailbox and Posteo.

  • Between Posteo and Mailbox - which one do you use / is better in terms of privacy?

I noticed that both of these are hosted in Germany. With rise in popularity of right wing party, a bunch of stuff around chat control and verification, and even normal German government support for Israel, I was wondering whether I should look for other solutions hosted elsewhere. Or use Proton / Tuta instead?

Also, I am not sure if any of these companies support right-wing or Israel themselves?

Do you have any suggestions regarding this?

  • Lytia @lemmy.todayEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    Proton is legally required to hand over certain user data, which I wouldn’t describe as happily given how much they fight or deny the requests. Proton itself does not comment on politics, the CEO of the for-profit company does. His opinion does not represent Proton in both the non-profit and for-profit part. Proton AG (the service provider) is majority owned by the Proton Foundation. The non-profit side forces the for-profit side to put ethics above profits while allowing the for-profit side to have the benefits of being for-profit. I doubt the non-profit would green light an IPO.