If you could have your email provider based in any country, which one would you choose? Which one do you think has the best privacy protections?
2026-04-10 05:05 UTC
Replies (14)
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@ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 2026-04-10 06:19
Any legal hoster will have to give up the data to local LEA, eventually. I would rather go for a hoster that has proven to use encryption and is legally fighting any order they receive.
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@voxel@feddit.uk 2026-04-10 10:01
Germany, since I'm a German citizen and know my local rights and laws better than anywhere else. Also easier to take legal action against the company if they they mess up.
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@eleitl@lemmy.zip 2026-04-10 09:33
My own tamper-proof server in a locked cage. There are no noncompliant jurisdictions.
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@commander@lemmy.world 2026-04-10 07:02
One thing is that I email and receive emails from almost no one that uses an encrypted service on their end so I have nearly zero expectations when it comes to email. Regardless, as long as it's encrypted so they have been demonstrated in court to not being able to provide the content of my emails and you can pay with some crypto, then I consider it good enough. Other thing is that regardless of what country you live in, a service outside of the country you live in. Preferably even countries that have the least if not just about no significant information sharing treaties. Maybe hostile to the country I live in is best. I have no concerns about law enforcement in other countries. My concern is the authority that I live under practically every day of the year regardless of their behavior in the present Other types of services I have higher expectations for privacy like cloud storage and VPNs
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@Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 2026-04-10 07:19
In the case of email, security is more important than privacy. The country your provider is based in doesn't matter. Hypothetically if we were talking about something like a VPN, it would need to be a country which values privacy and which has a vaguely hostile attitude to America. I have no idea what country that would be.
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@akilou@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-10 07:16
Sealand!
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@zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml 2026-04-10 05:10
Iceland, maybe?
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@Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 2026-04-10 06:41
My own country. It's very transparent here (DK)...
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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-04-10 10:11
Why "could"?
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@blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2026-04-10 09:41
trashbat.co.ck
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@versionc@lemmy.world 2026-04-10 07:30
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@sudoer777@lemmy.ml 2026-04-10 08:25
Probably some island that hasn't been discovered yet or my own pirate ship, that has the best privacy protections because then I'm the government
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@racoon@lemmy.ml 2026-04-10 07:36
E-Mail is only a privacy threat
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@HubertManne@piefed.social 2026-04-12 17:38
Like geni wish. Because my own country with it treats email the way it treats physical mail most stringently.