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How does fastmail compare to protonmail, regarding encryption and data privacy?

• krageon 7y ago
  Given that Fastmail is Australian, it is fundamentally untrustworthy in much the same way any US company is. Of course, Protonmail is pretty untrustworthy also. Most of that is down to them making claims that are patently untrue (the encryption keys are stored serverside, so their encryption is not better than symmetrical for one), but some of it is also just because they are not in a country with strong privacy guarantees (for that I tend to look at Scandinavia or Germany).
• jammygit 7y ago
  ProtonMail is better for privacy, and I think fastmail could read your emails if they wanted to - even if they don’t want to after the Australian data access laws. However, the fastmail privacy policy is quite good (I emailed them about it once), they come with calendar, and their system works really well. Fastmail is nice for imap too, ProtonMail requires extra software for it. Fastmail also gives you a free website via their hosted files features If ProtonMail did a calendar though I would be using ProtonMail right now