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Originally Posted by edu
That's not what Posteo says about it, maybe you misunderstood that law, and I know that Posteo had some problems with authorities before and always defending their users.
https://posteo.de/en/site/faq
Is Posteo affected by the reintroduction of data retention in Germany?
No, Posteo is not affected by data retention. (...) |
Posteo does the best they can.They do a great job in fact!
You are correct in stating that "data retention" does not apply to email providers, only network providers (and I already wrote that in my first post).
But, like I wrote, Germany also requires all email providers to offer remote interfaces for government agencies to conveniently and secretly access their customer's email on demand.
No exception for Posteo: Posteo does a very good job trying to fend of the usage of these interfaces, but they can not in all cases as their
transparency report shows.
So, to summarize: data retention applies to German network providers, eavesdropping interfaces apply to German email providers, inclusing Posteo, but hopefully not Fastmail.