As it stands, Facebook has a better privacy story than email. Facebook traffic is encrypted straight through to Facebook's servers, and I'm confident that my da

As it stands, Facebook has a better privacy story than email. Facebook traffic is encrypted straight through to Facebook's servers, and I'm confident that my data is not leaving Facebook. (You can pay Facebook to show ads to specific demographics; you can't actually buy user data.) Email, on the other hand, is plaintext for most of its journey and available in cleartext to dozens of shady actors (every ISP in the path, sender's provider, recipient's provider). The courts are clear that email is not considered private and not protected by law. I'd like to see GPG+email become the new Facebook, but I'll take Facebook over email as it stands now easily.