Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
Google will slowly be rolling out a number of changes for consumer Gmail users and G Suite users. Some of the changes improve usability and productivity, while others are meant to maximize data and user protection. Some of the new security options should help enterprise users meed GDPR compliance needs.
[...] Gmail confidential mode will allow users to:
- Set expiration dates for emails or revoke previously sent messages
- Secure access to the contents of emails by requiring recipients to enter a password
- Restrict the recipients’ ability to forward, copy, download or print emails.
These things will be possible because these emails will not be actually downloaded in the recipients’ inbox, but will be placed on a separate page/window where their content can be viewed, and the email will show that page.
Guess I'll be switching to ProtonMail for my webmail needs, which, granted, are few.
Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2018/04/26/gmail-self-destructing-emails/
(Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday May 01 2018, @07:53PM
->"As the admin of a paid gmail enterprise account, yes we can certainly do that easily at the account level."
I do understand what you're saying, but you've basically placed it all on that last phrase - "at the account level" which has to be understood exactly as you intend it for this to be true.
Most gmail users would not understand it that way, and even if you exhausted yourself explaining it to them they still wouldn't actually understand that phrase.
So it may be technically true but it's deceptive as hell. In the sense that the vast majority of gmail users would understand it, it's false. You can't send self-destructing emails. Telling people they can, and even giving them a button for that purpose, and rigging it so that certain tests will appear to confirm that it's really a self destructing email - this will only lead to users believing in even more impossible magic.
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