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Sadly, I guess Fastmail will now have to change their privacy policy: https://www.fastmail.com/about/privacy.html https://www.fastmail.com/about/privacy.html. T
by lemming 11y ago
Sadly, I guess Fastmail will now have to change their privacy policy: https://www.fastmail.com/about/privacy.html https://www.fastmail.com/about/privacy.html. They were pretty openly appealing to people worried about surveillance but that will be more difficult for them now.
- brokentube 11y agoNo they don't: http://blog.fastmail.com/2015/04/09/fastmail-is-not-required-to-implement-the-australian-metadata-retention-laws/ http://blog.fastmail.com/2015/04/09/fastmail-is-not-required...
- lemming 11y agoThat's great news, thanks - I hadn't seen that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10139442 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10139442 is very worrying though and I'm sure that sooner or later the gaps in the law will be plugged since the intention is clearly to catch the likes of Fastmail. The direction that the law in Australia in general is taking is clearly towards more surveillance - Fastmail was top of my list of alternative mail providers, but this will definitely make me think twice even if they're exempt right now.
- hga 11y agoUnless Fastmail is really dumb, and they've not been dumb in the 6 1/2 years I've been using them, they've got contingency plans to move their business (as opposed to their servers, which can't realistically be in Australia with its very expensive connections to the rest of the world) to a better jurisdiction if/when Australia continues to have the 1st World's worst Internet regime. They've already experienced this sort of thing in the 2010-2013 period when Opera in Norway owned the company (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastMail https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FastMail).