[liberationtech] Email privacy

[André Rebentisch]

Am 29.01.2013 04:42, schrieb scarp:
> While Google fights for privacy, somewhat against lower level law
> enforcement requiring them to have supporting legal documentation
> authorizing them to have access to that information.
What makes you think that they defend/advocate privacy? The ongoing
debate on this side of the Atlantic:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/26/technology/eu-privacy-proposal-lays-bare-differences-with-us.html?_r=0
>
> Hosting your own email in another country outside of the US would be a
> good idea, because we all know the NSA records everything anyway that
> goes across US networks. ...
> All we do seem to know is the NSA has plans to "record the entire
> Internet".
Even if they did, only a limited audience would get access. You can't
use extralegal information in court. Noticed that simplified logic of
either private/safe or public/unsafe here before. If I don't lock my
house or use an unsafe mechanism to lock it (like 99.99% of the
population) that doesn't mean anyone is invited to enter and seize my
property.

New study of the EP: Fighting cyber crime and protecting privacy in the
cloud:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/studiesdownload.html?languageDocument=EN&file=79050

Heise reports US diplomates slightly over the top against EU data
protection (German)
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/US-Diplomat-warnt-vor-Handelskrieg-wegen-EU-Datenschutzreform-1792765.html

Best,
A