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ANY government entity, from your local town cops to the IRS can read your email without a warrant - if it is at least 6 months old.

That law is over a decade old.



Unless you are hosting your own server and don't store your mail on a third party in the cloud (but that is probably true for all your data that is hosted by a third party, not just email)


Yup. And exactly why the next president after that law was signed setup their own private email server in their home.

I have no idea why there weren't a million news stories about WHY you should setup your own private email server in your home and how to do it.

In fact a startup might find the perfect sales pitch to have a plug-and-play mail server for your home. $100 shipped to your door, plug it into your router and give it a domain name.


Gmail likely has most of your emails due to the fact that many people use it. See for example this analysis[0], where the author says that over 50% of his emails have transited on a Gmail-owned server.

[0] https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-be...




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