• Frostbeard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7 months

    The policy of not asking about personal medical information by regular email is sound.

    I work as an engineer(not in the US) in a governmental capacity and we would never ask for sensitive material to be sent by mail.

    We do however have a secure service in our web page where you can upload such material, with the option to cc in people by mail to alert them that you have sent something. Otherwise it will take a day for our archive to send it the right way.

    Edit: We have more secure options, but that requires an invite/link. We ofc can handle proper secret stuff as well, but that involves a seperate intranet and secure terminal and so on.

  • NoWay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7 months

    Most faxes these days are unencrypted.

    If you know how to eavesdrop, faxes are less secure than google to google email. Or if you need to be certain you zip encrypted the file, send it over, and then call with the password… Or fax the password.

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7 months

      Google email reads all your mail and sells what it finds to advertisers.

      The encrypted zip could work as long as the filenames don’t reveal anything. Google looks in encrypted zips and reads the filenames (which aren’t encrypted).

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        7 months

        Google doesn’t sell anything to advertisers, that would be mega dumb.

        They do sell access though. Advertiser ticks boxes for what they want their target audience to be and then Google shows it to those people.

        If they sold all that data, nobody would advertise through Google anymore because it wouldn’t be better than competing services.

        Now their three letter friends? Those guys definitely get data.