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by YetAnotherNick 903 days ago
I really don't understand how people think government issues services have more privacy, when in reality it is the exact opposite. It didn't even take NSA leaks to know that government privacy violations are lot more both in terms of quantity and the impact. I would never use a government email if it is tied my real self.

At least in my country I know for a fact that data which should be legally private is used by political party plans and by the police.
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freetanga 903 days ago
I don’t trust them with privacy. But I don’t trust FAANG with that either.

But I do freak out about loosing my domain name where my email is hosted, or access to an iCloud / gmail account that a lot of services are anchored about.

Two months ago LinkedIn did not like me changing my 2FA client, and locked me out for a month. I have over 5.000 contacts and was chasing a few leads to change jobs. I can tell you is cold outside. Nobody provides support. I had to leverage a friend who knew someone at LinkedIn to sort it out. I hear being locked out of Google, MS and Meta is also bad.

I have an .ac account for life that is my “last resort” recovery, but having a government provided email for secure recovery purposes would feel reassuring.

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YetAnotherNick 903 days ago
> I don’t trust FAANG with that either.

That's fine. But they NEED to ban people using their service from spam else they would dominate. That is what people don't understand.

> but having a government provided email for secure recovery purposes would feel reassuring.

It depends on the country and the region, but I have faced issues multiple times with not able to make any progress with the government. It happened in much more important cases like passport, for which if something fails on their system, you are screwed.

Nobody provides support in government services as well unless it is required by law, and I have been locked out of government services. In countries like China, you could be locked out of government service if your credit score is low. In Sweden you could be locked out of it if you don't allow unions.

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pbhjpbhj 903 days ago
Most people don't have anything to hide from the government.
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plagiarist 903 days ago
After observing how quickly Texas turned women's healthcare into criminal activity, I'm inclined to disagree.
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