> I have two hearts. I usually don't trust Google, but on this issue I tend to see email as paper mail — it's inherently not private, and the overload of priva

> I have two hearts. I usually don't trust Google, but on this issue I tend to see email as paper mail — it's inherently not private, and the overload of private information that goes through it is a problem regardless of Google's presence in the exchange. I find the usual alternative, attaching identity to mobile phone numbers/SMS, even worse. Other alternatives, like WhatsApp, are proprietary, restrictive, and also harvest data from users. In the heyday of paper mail, you wouldn't get a copy of your entire grocery receipt back in the mail. There was a lot of sensitive information (e.g. a credit card bill) but it was less fine grained than the information that leaks from order confirmation emails. Maybe that's something merchants should be careful about.