Comment by nunobrito
5 months ago
They are saying the truth: those emails are "technically" encrypted.
Just nowhere private on the sender side since they won't even keep the keys private.
Now much less private on the receiver side since they have for "reasons" to login into a gmail hosted server and give them data like their IP address and permit other things like browser fingerprinting.
Fantastic, from the title I almost believed they'd be adding private messaging as done by other email providers almost 30 years ago. But not yet.
This is just Google going after those proprietary “end to end encrypted” email services healthcare and other places use. Technically speaking they don’t accomplish anything but from a compliance perspective they seem to satisfy regulators.
Over here "encrypted email" is actually them just sending you a link and a password to a web form in separate mails.
There you enter the password and unlock the content.
"secure mail" my ass.