The differences in privacy between one email and another

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Let's briefly return to talking about emails after our articles on alternatives to Gmail and on three best alternatives to Gmail. Recently in fact Google has finally updated its official applications for iOS users ¹. The applications of Google they had in fact stopped with the updates since the beginning of December. They also started to cause some annoyance to those who used them: the user was in fact warned that the application might not be safe as it was not updated ². Also among the updated applications is Gmail and that's why today we're talking about privacy differences between one email and another.

Among the many speculations as to why Google did not update its applications on iOS there are those who maintain that the problem was new privacy relationship requested by Apple ³.

The applications of Google, in fact, without being updated they did not have the privacy coupon requested by Apple. For those who don't know what we're talking about: for some time Apple forces the applications present inside of its store to summarize in a few points which and how much data is collected and whether it can be linked to the user's identity.

Gmail, ProtonMail and Tutanota

And here comes the beauty. With the update of Gmail the long-awaited table has also arrived privacy relationship! And it is precisely with this table that we want to have some fun and make you understand difference between using Gmail instead of one of the emails recommended from us.

Gmail ↴

ProtonMail ↴

Tutanota ↴

The differences in privacy between one email and another

As you can see, and as we already knew but seen like this it has a completely different effect, There is a lot of information that Google collects about us. The data linked to us, if we use Gmail, they are really many. Going into the details let's see that Google agrees to use our data, such as approximate location, user ID and usage data, for third-party advertising.

Gmail can also know your purchase history (!) and search history. In addition obviously to contacts, the contents of emails, photos and audio data.

That seems like enough to us change provider and go to someone who cares more about our privacy and who does not read all our emails to collect personal data such as, for example, history of our purchases and of our research.

Finally, we add that to have greater privacy there is no need to necessarily choose an encrypted email such as ProtonMail or Tutanota. These obviously guarantee greater certainty that emails cannot physically be read or analysed. However, there are safe and very reliable providers that they earn through paid subscriptions and not by collecting data left and right. It is the case of Posteo, Mailboxes, Infomaniak or also HEY.

1. Google returns to updating major iOS apps after months-long wait[↩]
2. Google apps on iOS are showing sign-in warnings amid lack of updates[↩]
3. Google's iOS apps haven't been updated in weeks. Could Apple's privacy labels be the reason?[↩]

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