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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 c0lo on Wednesday May 02 2018, @04:00AM (1 child)
Well, I haven't properly factored the convenience.
I moved my mother's email account from gmail - it started to ask for a mobile number/device/etc.
My mother continues to not use any of these, she's using thunderbird (and no web ui) anyway, so...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday May 02 2018, @01:18PM
Yeah, the effort adds up: after the fourth time I had to install and configure Eudora for my wife, then I did Thunderbird for her which she hated - I think she was already in Gmail before we got phones that really did e-mail (we had some 10 key flip phones that sort of could e-mail for a long time, never used it on them)... So, I never even tried to play POP/IMAP on Android because it comes through Gmail which we were using anyway. That's a lock-in convenience that I can live with.
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