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by skybrian 1269 days ago
They could but claim they don't, and I don't think anyone has proven otherwise. Hard to make money from something you're not actually doing.
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I assume they are. Of course I assume if it’s not end to end encrypted it’s not private and is being read or scanned by someone.
Well yes they do. Even spam filtering needs them to read the emails. But they claim they don't use emails for advertising.
i’ve replied above. they claim they do not read your emails.

regarding encryption i’ve only found this:

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6330403?hl=en#zippy=%...

> Email encryption in transit S/MIME is used to support enhanced encryption in transit, and automatically encrypts your outgoing emails if it can.

> Important: These steps only work if you have S/MIME enabled on your account

End-to-end encryption with keys only you control is really the only type that matters from a privacy point of view. Encryption at rest or in transit behind the scenes helps protect against some actors but does not give you privacy.

The zero-setup encryption offered by cloud providers is also smoke and mirrors. It's a key they control, so while it may improve security against someone internal snooping on a raw SAN device it doesn't do much for your privacy.