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It happens all the time. Criminals  hacking into email accounts   Every single one of yahoo’s users, thats  3 billion people, were impacted   E-mail was the internet's original ‘killer  app’. Even with new forms of communication   like instant messengers or social media  becoming popular, e-mail remains an   essential backbone of internet communications  with over 4 billion users worldwide.   But is it private? Snowden says:   no. “Email is a fundamentally insecure protocol  that can and should be abandoned for the   purposes of any meaningful communication.” The fact is, email wasn’t designed with privacy   or security in mind. In its original form,  email was transferred completely in the open,   everything was readable by anyone who  watched network traffic and there were   little to no checks to prevent impersonation. But  as email’s importance grew, instead of overhauling   the way it works to provide security and  privacy, various protocols were layered   over to try and address these issues. But let’s be honest, most people aren’t going   to just give up their email. Not only do we rely  on it for work, communicating with loved ones,   we also use email addresses to sign-up to  various websites, to reset our passwords.   Email is a core part of our digital identity. You know it’s Who I am?   Given we’re not going to give up our  email, what are some things we can do   to help increase our email’s privacy. Most  importantly you can find an email provider   that meets the following criteria. First, they should collect and retain   minimum metadata and personal information about  you. Metadata is stuff like email subjects,   sender and receiver, date. You don’t  want an email provider that is keeping   a database of all this information. The rest of the criteria revolves around   encryption, which you can think of like a  digital lock and key. The devil is in the   details when it comes to how your email service  provider safely locks up your email content.   Why don’t we take an eensy  look at the contract?   There’s Transport Layer Encryption: This means  your email is encrypted while it travels over the   internet, which makes it harder for third parties  to intercept and read. Most email providers worth   their salt will provide this. Then there’s Zero Access Encryption:   this means that your e-mail and attachments are  encrypted while stored so that even your e-mail   provider can’t read them. Zero-access encryption  prevents the messages in your mailbox from being   shared with third parties or leaked in the event  of a data breach. But encryption and decryption   still happens by the email provider and there is a  split second in which the message is accessible to   the email provider before it is encrypted. And finally, End-to-End Encryption which takes   things a step further than  Zero Access Encryption.   Instead of just storing emails in an  encrypted way, encryption and decryption   of e-mails happens entirely on a user’s device  so that whatever information the email provider   receives is already encrypted. Given these criteria, how do the   most popular email...