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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am privacy conscious so I would like to use my proton.me account, but I wanted some advice. Should I use my gmail account for career related purposes or should a proton.me address be fine?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have no idea. I was talking about GMail, not about Workspaces. OP wants to use their personal e-mail to apply to a job.

I mean, assuming Workspaces is a service by either Google or Microsoft (they both have an offering called similar to that), if you're outside the US, they are required by US law (PATRIOT act & CLOUD act) to provide customer data to the US intelligence services.
See, for example, the recent news that the European Commission may not use MS365: https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2024/european-commissions-use-microsoft-365-infringes-data-protection-law-eu-institutions-and-bodies_en

That's the baseline, how all US-based services leak data, but obviously, how much data they leak, depends on how much data is stored unencrypted on their servers. And that's where GMail is significantly worse than most services.

[–] IsThisAnAI 1 points 7 months ago

I misread