That's not what Posteo says about it, maybe you misunderstood that law, and I know that Posteo had some problems with authorities before and always defending their users.
https://posteo.de/en/site/faq
Is Posteo affected by the reintroduction of data retention in Germany?
No, Posteo is not affected by data retention. You don't need to be concerned about the privacy of your Posteo emails. The law on the reintroduction of data retention ("Gesetz zur Einführung einer Speicherpflicht und einer Höchstspeicherfrist für Verkehrsdaten") completely excludes email providers. The entire area of email is excepted from retention.
In short, Posteo is not one of the affected parties. At Posteo, therefore, it remains the case that no data is retained.
https://posteo.de/en/blog/transparen...edly-decreased
https://posteo.de/en/site/transparency_report
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Originally Posted by xor
German government interception (also) happens on the protocol level (they intercept SMTP, IMAP, HTTP, etc)
If you do not encrypt the email content before(!) it leaves your own computer, then, yes, you can be targeted by these interfaces.
Therefore, encrypt in your own local mail client, do not rely on web browser interface encryption.
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