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I am privacy conscious so I would like to use my proton.me account, but I wanted some advice. Should I use my gmail account for career related purposes or should a proton.me address be fine?

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[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

How is choosing MS not making a conscious decision about privacy? Companies choose MS specifically because it has very strong controls to protect information. Same with workspaces to a lesser degree.

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago

MS? Microsoft? The question mentioned GMail, which would be Google.

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

MS365 is pretty much the business default. But same question then. How does workspaces spy on your privacy?

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

I have no idea. I was talking about GMail, not about Workspaces. OP wants to use their personal e-mail to apply to a job.

I mean, assuming Workspaces is a service by either Google or Microsoft (they both have an offering called similar to that), if you're outside the US, they are required by US law (PATRIOT act & CLOUD act) to provide customer data to the US intelligence services.
See, for example, the recent news that the European Commission may not use MS365: https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2024/european-commissions-use-microsoft-365-infringes-data-protection-law-eu-institutions-and-bodies_en

That's the baseline, how all US-based services leak data, but obviously, how much data they leak, depends on how much data is stored unencrypted on their servers. And that's where GMail is significantly worse than most services.

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago
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