Companies That Buy Data Derived From Scraping the Contents of Your Email Inbox

[malcontent]

https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/p...slice-cleanfox

Multiple confidential documents obtained by Motherboard show the sort of companies that want to buy data derived from scraping the contents of your email inbox.

[TenFour]

Of course how can you ever know that even if an email company says that your information is totally private that is really the case? Especially in the case of smaller, more obscure email providers, like some of the ones written about on this forum, it would be impossible to know if the person or persons in charge aren't simply reading through your emails for fun and profit.

[Berenburger]

Originally Posted by TenFour

Of course how can you ever know that even if an email company says that your information is totally private that is really the case? Especially in the case of smaller, more obscure email providers, like some of the ones written about on this forum, it would be impossible to know if the person or persons in charge aren't simply reading through your emails for fun and profit.

And what about the encrypted ones, like Tutanota or Protonmail?
Ok, ok, they are not small and obscure.

[TenFour]

And what about the encrypted ones, like Tutanota or Protonmail?

I suspect they are probably doing their best, but how do you know there isn't some backdoor that allows them to unencrypt anything they want to? Is there some sort of independent testing organization that checks these things out and provides some sort of guarantee?

[Bamb0]

It would be stupid if there wasnt.... They own the service .. They really have a right to see whats being said over thier own network....

[TenFour]

And then there's the CIA running the encryption company. https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/...ligence-report

[TenFour]

Read the comments on this article. Some seem to think Proton Mail's encryption is not so secure. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archiv....html#comments