Personally I think privacy is a mirage

Google has just updated their Android mail app for phones and it looks suspiciously like the Android Mymail app from my.com

Curious, I did some research and found that my.com is a Russian company with access the email contents of millions of Android users.

When you use a third party Android mail app like Mymail then both Google and my.com have your email data.

This is not necessarily better or worse than an American company, e.g. Google, having access to all your data.

Other than the fact the higher profile company is more likely to get caught out rooting around unethically with your data.

In all cases I can imagine that the local national government can co-opt all the data for any purpose that they want.

And the company itself can do the same, especially in efforts to use analytics to find information about you to on-sell to sales and marketing outfits.

I stay comforted in the thought that none of my emails are very interesting. And also that the best place to hide a body is in a cemetery. And I am mostly immune to advertising after a life-long effort to be so.