Comment by jeswin
8 hours ago
A few decades back, a lot of computer use was emails. And it was stored on someone else's servers - with everyone from server operators along the route, to the government potentially having access to it. Even HTTPS is a relatively recent thing.
I guess what I'm saying is - we've always had this problem.
Yea there have always been gaps in privacy, but nowadays it's several orders of magnitude easier for corporations to exploit that private data at scale.
Snail mail is also not secure and can be tampered with. I don’t mind someone hosting my mail. But I do mind Google doing it (based on their behavior).