Ask Slashdot: What Country Has the Best Email Privacy Laws? 236
An anonymous reader writes "Given all that is going on with the ability of the government to go through my email if it is on a third-party server, I was wondering: what countries have the best privacy laws and what are some good hosts to use? I would rather pay a token fee to have secure private email than have members of the government able to read it as soon as it's 180 days old if I keep it at my email provider."
Re:privacy laws won't fix a broken privacy model (Score:4, Informative)
I mean, do you even know what countries your emails might route through between sending and arriving at their destination? If you're going to go to a server in a different country to gain the benefit of their better privacy laws, you're likely going to need to transfer data over networks that geographically reside in other countries too. And your end points probably are still somewhere within your own country. What are the laws like there?
Re:privacy laws won't fix a broken privacy model (Score:5, Informative)
All modern mail servers support STARTTLS, and most ISPs have configured a certificate in their MX. To see if yours has, do the following:
IMMI - International Modern Media Initiative. (Score:3, Informative)