Everything we do online, whether chatting on phone, talking via video or audio, sending messages on phones or emails are being watched by Governments and Intelligence agencies. However, many Internet giants offer encrypted environment in an effort to protect our online data from prying eyes, but still those companies can read our data stored into their servers.
But, there is a great news for Gmail users. On Tuesday, Google has anouced two major privacy enhancements in its Gmail and this new push for its email service will even protect our data and communication from Google itself.
With the ongoing concerns about privacy and the pervasiveness of email communications, Google already provides encryption for its Gmail called Transit encryption (HTTPS). In which only the transmission of emails sending or receiving is protected by the transit encryption but not the content of the email.
Few Months back, Google itself that their automated systems read our email content, including incoming and outgoing emails to provide us targeted advertisements. That means Internet giants generally do encrypt our data, but they have the key so they can decrypt it any time they
Google also today released its first email encryption transparency report, and in new section called safer email, Google describes a world of webmail where only about 40 to 50 percent of all emails sent are unencrypted from server to server (eg. Gmail to Yahoo), because Transit encryption does work only and only if both the sending and receiving service agree to use it. But if your email client may have not agreed to use it, your contents of the email are vulnerable to being read.
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