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It's not just Microsoft: Apple and Google can also read your emails
Microsoft accessed a French blogger’s Hotmail account and read his emails in order to assess his involvement with an alleged theft of Windows trade secrets. As numerous reports pointed out, Microsoft’s Hotmail and Outlook.com terms give the company the right to access and read users’ emails, and bloggers lashed out at Microsoft as a result. As it turns out, however, Microsoft isn’t the only tech giant that reserves the right to read your private correspondence.
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Is there anyone in the world who is actually shocked by this news story? It seems to be a given that if you happen to have your email hosted by a third party, that third party can read your emails anytime they see fit. If you're concerned about having strangers reading your email, there's a few solutions you may consider:
* Email Hosting Provider - Buy your own domain, pay x amount per month for hosting. A good provider has agreements in place against this activity. It won't save you from a subpoena, but should address general snooping or search of your emails. * mailvelope - browser-based encryption for email using PGP. Works with Gmail, Yahoo email, etc if you still want to use a free provider * PGP - stand-alone email encryption application for securing your emails from others
So, there's a few solutions available for those interested. However, if you're going to need to communicate information across questionable conduits, then I'd strongly recommend speaking to that person directly in a secure location.