> Do you affirmatively know that every email that you've ever sent isn't an account managed by a third party (like an employer) whom the recipient has ceded (or shares) control of their mailbox to?
They could also send my post to them off to a processor for whatever reason. When I give my personal details to my ISP, they could sell them to advertisers. I expect that they will not, and feel violated when they do.
> Any employer can trivially read email, and many do so routinely.
If I'm sending an email to a UK employee, they in fact cannot legally do so in the general case - doubly so if it's a personal email.
> So waving away and dismissing concerns about the vulnerability of email feels like the right thing.
No, but there's a point to be made that just because something is possible and easy does not mean it should be legal or even right, nor that people should expect it to happen. If it were something I really wanted kept secret, I'd encrypt it - but most things I email are, while not things I would necessarily want public, not life-destroyingly secret either.
I don't expect or want to be tracked everywhere I go in public either, but I don't wear a mask to ensure I can't be. On the other hand, perhaps I might want to do so in some circumstances because the stakes are higher.
They could also send my post to them off to a processor for whatever reason. When I give my personal details to my ISP, they could sell them to advertisers. I expect that they will not, and feel violated when they do.
> Any employer can trivially read email, and many do so routinely.
If I'm sending an email to a UK employee, they in fact cannot legally do so in the general case - doubly so if it's a personal email.
> So waving away and dismissing concerns about the vulnerability of email feels like the right thing.
No, but there's a point to be made that just because something is possible and easy does not mean it should be legal or even right, nor that people should expect it to happen. If it were something I really wanted kept secret, I'd encrypt it - but most things I email are, while not things I would necessarily want public, not life-destroyingly secret either.
I don't expect or want to be tracked everywhere I go in public either, but I don't wear a mask to ensure I can't be. On the other hand, perhaps I might want to do so in some circumstances because the stakes are higher.