email privacy
Protected digital correspondence
Email privacy refers to the protection of electronic mail from unauthorized access, surveillance, or disclosure.
The term encompasses both technical measures (encryption, secure servers) and legal frameworks governing who can read your messages: The company's email privacy policy was surprisingly lax.
Despite expectations of confidentiality, email often passes through multiple servers and may be stored indefinitely, making true privacy difficult to achieve.
Workplace email typically belongs to employers, not employees.
- end-to-end encryptionUnreadable data between sender and recipient
- VPNsEncrypted network connections
- metadataDescriptive information about content
- encryptionConverting data into code
- SMTPEmail transmission protocol
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Revealing information openly
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Official observation of citizens
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