Re:Opera launches Opera Mail web app
by safeaim on Saturday April 09, 2011 @12:02PM
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Be aware that all mail deliveries in Norway (who you send the mail to, and receive the mail from) will be surveilled and available to law enforcement by court order.
Obviously most of you are from the US, and are already used to these kind of shenaningans, but just thought that I should warn you, as the mail servers for this service will most probably be located in Norway.
Read more about it here:
http://www.tnp.no/2233-controversial-data-storage-directive-...
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Fastmail.fm, the company that has been bought by Opera ASA to provide Webmail states that "Our main servers are located at NYI in New York City, USA."
A geoip lookup of the hosts in the header of a test e-mail confirms this.
Yeah, I was suspecting that much after posting my comment. Thanks for clearing that up :)
It doesn't change your warning though, does it?
"Be aware that all mail deliveries in Norway (who you send the mail to, and receive the mail from) will be surveilled and available to law enforcement by court order."
If you think your email won't be surveilled just because your email service provider is not in the US, you could have a big surprise in store for you.
Email can be snooped anywhere between its source and its destination. That can include many hops (some even through the US, depending on where it's going).
If you're really concerned about privacy, you should be using encryption and maybe even anonymous remailers.