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by lima 3584 days ago
The biggest risk to your privacy is your provider getting hacked, not the NSA.
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There's a German law forcing telcos and email providers with more than 10.000 customers to provide access for law enforcements.

German wikipedia article about it: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Mail-%C3%9Cberwachung

Makes sense for their point of view. Pro tip: if you don't want your government spy on you in the democracy you live in. Store your data in another less interested in you.
Just a reminder that if you choose a friendly/allied country - they will spy on you (a foreigner without privacy rights) and share data with "your" intelligence services (those to whom you might be more interesting). If you choose a hostile country they might spy on you and "your" intelligence services will try to hack your provider because spying on hostile countries is one of the things they do...
No, see here: https://posteo.de/blog/posteo-zur-m%C3%A4r-von-der-abh%C3%B6...

The same applies to mailbox.org