OpenAI now wants users to give ChatGPT access to their bank accounts: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/931122/openai-chatgpt-financial-accounts-plaid-connection

Starting on August 1st, the chair of the Dutch data protection authority AP will be a corporate lawyer who has worked to defend social media giants like Meta and TikTok: https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/05/big-tech-lawyer-to-chair-dutch-privacy-watchdog-ap/

The U.S. FCC is proposing a new "Know Your Customer" rule that would require telecom companies to obtain a government ID before activating a customer's account: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-421309A1.pdf

Why trust us with your email and your data? It's an extremely valid question. First, we're one of the first fully private email services, and have been in business for over a decade. More importantly, we were made to serve YOU, not shareholders or advertisers.

OpenAI is being hit with a class action privacy lawsuit after allegedly disclosing "users’ chat topics, identifiers, and contact details to Meta and Google without consent." https://cybersecuritynews.com/openai-chatgpt-privacy-lawsuit/

Meta employees are protesting after the company decided to start tracking their mouse movements to train AI models: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/meta-us-employees-organize-protest-against-mouse-tracking-tech-2026-05-12/

According to researchers, 60% of passwords can be cracked in under an hour using a MD5 hash. 48% are crackable in under a minute: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/07/60-of-md5-password-hashes-are-crackable-in-under-an-hour/5234954

More and more tech users across the globe are looking for ways to ditch American owned tech companies and platforms as U.S. tech firms and tech policy continue to alienate users: https://restofworld.org/2026/big-tech-backlash-alternatives-upscrolled/

When our subscribers are our sole source of revenue, our only priority is keeping you safe and satisfied. We don't have VC backers or shareholders to please, no quarterly projections to meet at all costs. This is why our customers stick around!

Google has designed its latest reCAPTCHA system so that anyone using a de-Googled Android device will automatically fail: https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users

So why are we so obsessed with users' privacy? Our right to privacy is a lynch pin to protecting so many more of our human rights. You can't have freedom of thought or expression if you don't get to choose which aspects of your life stay private.

U.S. automaker GM is being fined $12.75 million to settle claims that they allegedly made over $20 million off of the illegal sale of drivers' personal data: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/gm-pay-1275-million-settle-california-driver-privacy-probe-2026-05-08/

An ex-Meta employee is being investigated after downloading around 30,000 private images of Facebook users by bypassing the company's security checks: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg049xz1ygo

Now that tech giants are trying to force AI on all of us, expect a whole new crop of half truths and whole lies about these new AI agents and why we should use them. Don't fall for it! AI agents are unpredictable and have already caused hundreds of leaks and security incidents!

Privacy advocates in New York are suing a small town after its police chief attempted to install Flock cameras without the public's knowledge or consent: https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/nyclu-lawsuit-surveillance-camera-location-public-record-flock?source=queue

A woman in London found herself being extorted after a man used smart glasses to covertly record and post video of her shopping in public without her consent: https://gizmodo.com/extortion-using-smart-glasses-is-a-thing-now-2000755562

How does our private email service actually work? Every StartMail user has their own encrypted vault on our owned and operated servers. No one (and we mean NO ONE) can access any of the data in your vault until you log in...not even us!

According to a new study, two thirds of Android apps log data that's not mentioned in their privacy policies: https://cyberinsider.com/67-of-android-apps-log-data-not-mentioned-in-their-privacy-policies/

The U.S. DHS is demanding a man's location information, activity logs, and other data after he criticized ICE...even though he hasn't entered the U.S. in more than a decade: https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-demanded-google-surrender-data-on-canadians-activity-location-over-anti-ice-posts/

License Plate cameras have reportedly been used by law enforcement to stalk romantic interests at least 14 separate times, with most cases happening in the last 18 months: https://ij.org/police-have-reportedly-used-license-plate-readers-to-stalk-romantic-interests-at-least-14-times-in-recent-years/

Thousands of happy customers can't be wrong, can they? StartMail has what you need: world class encryption, intuitive design, easy migration, powerful features, real human support...and nothing that you don't: spam, ads, cumbersome membership tiers, or shareholders.

After its latest round of layoffs, Meta has announced that it will begin tracking the keystrokes and mouse clicks of their remaining employees to train their AI models: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvglyklz49jo

Starting in September 2027, new cars sold in the U.S. will be required to have surveillance technology that monitors whether you are impaired or distracted: https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/federal-car-surveillance-mandate-2027-nhtsa-dadss-privacy-2026/

A security researcher found that Anthropic's Claude Desktop app installed spyware onto his machine, a claim that's been corroborated by multiple other users: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/04/researcher-claims-claude-desktop-installs-spyware-on-macos

Our only revenue comes from you, the subscriber. We've built our entire business model around keeping our users secure and happy, so why not give it a try for yourself?

A report from The Citizen Lab exposes how vulnerabilities in the global telecom interconnect system allow state and private surveillance operations to covertly track users without detection: https://citizenlab.ca/research/uncovering-global-telecom-exploitation-by-covert-surveillance-actors/

Google has confirmed that "Personal Intelligence", its latest AI upgrade path, will enable Gemini to access all of a users photos, documents, emails, contacts, and more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/04/20/google-starts-scanning-all-your-photos-as-new-update-goes-live/

Is the price of our subscription really worth it? You need only listen to any of our thousands of happy subscribers, and they will tell you. Not only is the peace of mind and ease of use worth it, our unlimited alias feature can help save you money every single time you shop online!

An investigation has revealed that the European Commission declared their new age verification app "technically ready" even as the app's own GitHub repository warned that it was unfit: https://www.sofx.com/eu-declared-age-app-ready-while-github-flagged-it-unfit-then-hackers-bypassed-it-in-2-minutes/

Cybercriminals are bypassing digital safeguards for crypto exchanges and commercial banks with tools that are being bought and sold via Telegram groups: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/15/1135898/cyberscammers-bypassing-bank-telegram/

When other email providers advertise end-to-end encryption, they're only talking about messages sent to OTHER people with encrypted email. So what happens when you need to send an encrypted message to someone without a private email account? We have a feature for that!

A Mexican surveillance company has built a billion dollar empire using cameras and AI to monitor the US/Mexico border. Now it's expanding into even more countries, and privacy advocates are worried: https://restofworld.org/2026/mexico-seguritech-government-surveillance-profile/

Did you know that your smart TV is collecting data on you? From what you watch the the devices you connect to it to when you're standing in front of it. Here's how to minimize the data it collects on you and your family: https://www.popsci.com/diy/how-to-stop-your-smart-tv-from-tracking-you/

An independent audit by Webxray has found that tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Meta are still using cookies to track users even when they opt our of tracking: www.404media.co/google-micro...

It seems like staying private these days is impossible for anyone who isn't a hacker or software engineer. But don't fear! Private email can keep some of your most sensitive data out of the wrong hands, and our alias feature can also keep your main email address hidden entirely!

Apple is reportedly developing their own smart glasses, which will reportedly include cameras, microphones and speakers, and have a multimodal AI built in: https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-reportedly-testing-ai-glasses-in-several-frame-styles/

Lawmakers in Japan are relaxing regulations that protect users' privacy in order to cement the country's status as the "easiest country to develop AI": https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/08/japan_privacy_law_changes_ai/

The U.S. Congress is headed for a showdown as it decides whether to renew a controversial surveillance program that allows large amounts of surveillance and data collection without a warrant: https://apnews.com/article/congress-foreign-surveillance-fisa-spy-agencies-3dc3e84c3b9b03f52b84dfb3b01fc770

There's a reason we talk about our unlimited email alias feature a lot. Your email address is used to track your accounts and activity, the two go hand in hand!

More than 70 organizations, including the @aclu.org and @fightfortheftr.bsky.social have sent an open letter to Meta warning that their current plans to add facial recognition to their smart glasses will endanger millions of users worldwide. www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

Citizen Lab has released a report on Webloc, a little known surveillance system that uses data from mobile apps and ad auctions to track the detailed movements of millions of users: https://citizenlab.ca/research/analysis-of-penlinks-ad-based-geolocation-surveillance-tech/

We're always proud whenever happy users talk about why they like being StartMail subscribers. But when one of those users also happens to be a YouTube channel that teaches users how to protect their digital privacy, we truly could not be happier to do what we do!

Hackers are using fake job postings on GitHub to steal credentials and spread malware: https://www.techspot.com/news/111870-hackers-using-fake-coding-jobs-spread-malware-through.html

American telehealth company Hims and Hers has suffered a data breach via Zendesk that has exposed the personal information of an undisclosed number of customers: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hims-and-hers-warns-of-data-breach-after-zendesk-support-ticket-breach/

You may know that our company started as a private search engine. But why did we choose to do email from there? Simple, your email address is the nexus of how you communicate with people on the internet, and we're still leading the charge today with features like unlimited aliases!

As more and more companies, agencies, and entities make use of facial recognition tech, its errors have vast reaching and severe consequences...and there are a lot more errors than you might think: https://spectrum.ieee.org/facial-recognition-gone-wrong

A recent leak of Claude Code's source has experts warning that it can "exercise far more control" and gather more data than previously thought: https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/01/claude_code_source_leak_privacy_nightmare/?utm_medium=share&utm_content=article&utm_source=reddit

Apple has revealed to authorities the identity of a user who utilized their "Hide My Email" feature to generate disposable aliases. https://cyberinsider.com/apple-revealed-hide-my-email-user-identity-in-fbi-investigation/

Your email address is the nexus of how you communicate with people on the internet, whether directly or with the accounts it's attached to! That's why we pioneered private email and why we're still leading the charge today with features like unlimited aliases!

Studies have found that the number of AI chatbots that are ignoring human instructions, evading safeguards, and destroying emails without permission: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/27/number-of-ai-chatbots-ignoring-human-instructions-increasing-study-says