Guardian: Privacy fear over (new) plan to store email (fwd)

[Owen Blacker]

Mary Hawking:
> 
> Is this an argument for encrypting everything?
> Presumably either the sender or recipient would have to be approached 
> for the key to make your communications intelligible?

No, this new directive is about traffic data (who you emailed, which
websites you visited but not the pages on them, who phoned you and, most
chillingly, where your mobile phone has been).  The new directive is ~not~
about the content of these media.  So encrypting your mail wouldn't help,
unless it were transported over SSL or something  :)


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