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> tried and stopped using because of Australian law that is relatively more hostile to privacy

I see this kind of thing all the time. I could understand if you emailed a lot of stuff to yourself, but privacy is ultimately going to be determined by both email providers. It seems in this case that email is being used as a substitute for secure file sharing and secure chat.

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Yes, I agree with you. It's more of a matter of principles because otherwise there's no point to using a paid, private email service at all since most of the market share is with Gmail and outlook free emails and most people don't use PGP. But I don't think that should be a reason for governments to pass bills that are hostile to privacy while adding nothing to national security compared to similar laws in, say Europe.

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