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If you use PGP it doesn't matter where you host, right? If you're concerned about local officials having access to your data I don't think it's much worse than Google scanning my email to better target ads or "just to remind me" that I'm going at X or Y place in Z days.

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From a purely technical and tinfoil-hat point of view, they'd have meta-data about your emailing habits. They wouldn't be able to read the mail for your encrypted traffic, but lets be honest - most people don't. So that mail could be read too.

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