Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (2014)

Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by tryptophan on Sunday October 23, 2022 @12:43PM (#33308275)

I find it utterly astounding that not a single government has started an email service yet for its citizens, with all the legal protections of actual mail and such.

They wouldn't even need to run it, just create a legal category like "This account is officially registered to X and serves as a legal email account" that companies can apply for if they meet some standards.

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by crazygringo on Sunday October 23, 2022 @02:33PM (#33309080)

First, why would they when they don't need to because private companies already provide it for free?

Second, the government is now on the hook for not just failures and outages but all security and privacy breaches.

So it's basically all risk and no reward. It makes sense governments wouldn't want to touch that.

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by mort96 on Monday October 24, 2022 @06:17AM (#33314788)

Private companies provide it for free because they earn money from violating their users' privacy. They have proven incapable of providing a decent email service for free.

Which makes sense; "spend a lot of money providing a service for nothing in return" isn't a great business model.

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Re:Google Has Most of My Email Because It Has All of Yours (... by v3v3 on Monday October 24, 2022 @06:04PM (#33323243)

Sweden has "Min myndighetspost".

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