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No thank you. I don't want to need a government sanctioned e-mail address to send an anonymous (whistleblower) e-mail for example.
by Faaak 7y ago
No thank you. I don't want to need a government sanctioned e-mail address to send an anonymous (whistleblower) e-mail for example.
- tgragnato 7y agoWhistleblowing is the last of my concerns. I live in Italy and PEC is a thing, it’s a government certified email with legal value. Technical rules for the formation, transmission and validation are mandatory: read receipts are automatic. To use the service you must have a PEC box with one of the authorized managers. The publication of the list of authorized operators, the supervision and coordination is entrusted to the “Agency for digital Italy” (AgID). This means that every citizen with a pec is paying to obtain an email from a bunch of friends of friends of the government, in a market with virtually no competition, and that your mail box is heavily surveilled but left unsecured.
- iamnothere 7y agoTo be fair, email is a very poor medium for whistleblowers in any case. The notion of a regulated "official" communications channel (akin to postal mail) for bills and such isn't a terrible idea, although it would make more sense to build something new for this. Email has too many weaknesses to be a good choice.