[liberationtech] Email privacy

[Albo P Fossa]

Google's had news focus of late, for its supposed ardent protection of email content against government's "prying eyes". (I note, it's only content that's protected: sender, IP, userid, name, subject, and recipient are all somewhat readily available.) However, it occurred to me to ask this. I moved my email from Gmail to a domain-managed account. Does that by its nature give me a "better class" of privacy protection? Or does it depend wholly upon the practices of my hosting company?