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StartMail

@MyStartMail

Easy-to-use encrypted email provider. ✉️ Protecting your privacy with state-of-the-art security and technology.

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Joined April 2013
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We asked customers how they use StartMail. 82% of those who answered said it's their main email. That's not how we'd been describing it, so we're changing that.
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🥳🥳 The StartMail app is out now on iOS and Android. “Privacy needs to be easy.” Robert Beens, founder Already have an account? Download the app and sign in. New to StartMail? Create your account at startmail.com first. startmail.com/download
StartMail App. Now available on iOS and Android. Three phones show the StartMail app, with the inbox on the centre phone. A speech bubble next to an illustrated portrait of Robert Beens reads: “Privacy needs to be easy. The StartMail app puts your private inbox directly on your phone.” Robert Beens, Founder and CEO at StartMail.

ALT StartMail App. Now available on iOS and Android. Three phones show the StartMail app, with the inbox on the centre phone. A speech bubble next to an illustrated portrait of Robert Beens reads: “Privacy needs to be easy. The StartMail app puts your private inbox directly on your phone.” Robert Beens, Founder and CEO at StartMail.

Create an alias on the go. Create and manage your aliases from your phone. The centre phone shows the “Create domain alias” screen, with fields for the alias name, where to deliver it, a display name and a note. An illustration of two theatre masks sits in front.

ALT Create an alias on the go. Create and manage your aliases from your phone. The centre phone shows the “Create domain alias” screen, with fields for the alias name, where to deliver it, a display name and a note. An illustration of two theatre masks sits in front.

Encrypted mail just opens. Open PGP-encrypted mail from anyone, right in the app. The centre phone shows the “Encrypt with a password” screen, with a recipient address, a message password field and a password hint field. Two illustrated envelopes sit in front.

ALT Encrypted mail just opens. Open PGP-encrypted mail from anyone, right in the app. The centre phone shows the “Encrypt with a password” screen, with a recipient address, a message password field and a password hint field. Two illustrated envelopes sit in front.

On iOS and Android. Sign in with your StartMail account. startmail.com/download. The centre phone shows a new message with an “Encryption enabled” banner and the keyboard open.

ALT On iOS and Android. Sign in with your StartMail account. startmail.com/download. The centre phone shows a new message with an “Encryption enabled” banner and the keyboard open.

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Your bank, your boss, your parcel service. Anyone can type any name into an email's From line. Check the address behind it. If an email asks you to pay or log in, go to the site yourself instead of clicking.
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When you sign up for email, you're also picking a legal jurisdiction. StartMail is a Dutch company, based in the Netherlands, under EU law. Independent since 2014.
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Slides 3, 6, 7 and 8 are for paid subscribers only. Kidding. They’re free on our Instagram. And while you’re at it, check where your email provider is based. It’s usually on the “about” or legal page.
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Here's how: many marketing emails carry a tracking pixel, a tiny invisible image that loads from the sender's server the moment you open the message.
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Free email isn't free. If you're not paying, it's covered by advertising, by data, or by getting you into products you'll pay for later.
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Meta has settled "the largest consumer protection lawsuit in American history" for $18 billion and has agreed to make multiple changes for accounts of users under 18. Given the allegations, do you think this settlement is sufficient?
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So many tech users, MOST tech users, stomach Big Tech's surveillance because of the convenience that technology offers. What they don't realize is that you CAN have privacy AND convenience. We've had a user base for over a decade long that proves it!
Illustration of a person wearing a paper bag over their head with eye holes. The text reads, "Myth: I don’t care if I have to surrender my data… Big Tech makes things convenient for me!" The StartMail logo is visible.

ALT Illustration of a person wearing a paper bag over their head with eye holes. The text reads, "Myth: I don’t care if I have to surrender my data… Big Tech makes things convenient for me!" The StartMail logo is visible.

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Flock Safety is announcing new "safeguards" to supposedly address privacy concerns and instances of police misuse, but privacy advocates and experts have already dismissed the changes as minor and insufficient. What do you think of the company's newly announced reforms? Do they make you any more likely to trust Flock safety and the people using it?
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This is a great time to remind people that researchers have already found software on these glasses that recorded footage and sent it to Meta without even the user knowing.
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@CybernewsAug 28
What do you think? Full article ⤵️ cnews.link/meta-smart-glasse…
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British police are rolling out a trial of new live facial recognition technology in multiple train stations on the London Underground. Authorities claim that the technology will be deployed "in a targeted, proportionate way with strict safeguards in place." Do you trust that they're telling the truth?
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Given Amazon's MULTIPLE violations of customer privacy (including children...more than once), we're going to treat this news with extreme skepticism...
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@CybernewsAug 27
Ring’s TAKE system encrypts videos and deletes the key after powering selected smart features. Read more: cnews.link/amazon-ring-camer…
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Private investigators are now selling reports and dossiers of "anti-technology" activists and movements to tech companies and regulatory agencies. Are you surprised to read that tech evangelists are collecting intelligence on their critics? Do you think any of them might be collecting information about you?
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Any company that can accept an $18 billion settlement as a cost of doing business has gotten too big, especially since the proposed changes will only apply to accounts for users who are under the age of 18...
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@techradarAug 26
Meta settles the social media harm case for $18B and agrees to massive changes — but can they work? techradar.com/computing/inst…
Meta settles its alleged social media harm case for $18B — and agrees to massive changes that may...

Meta settles its alleged social media harm case for $18B — and agrees to massive changes that may...

$12.7 billion goes to online safety initiatives, with billions more to follow if YouTube and TikTok fall into line

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With more companies promising privacy, how can you determine who you can actually trust? Here are three ways that you can tell what companies ACTUALLY do with your data, and where their priorities lie...
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Maybe cities should focus on this instead of installing surveillance cameras everywhere?
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@CybernewsAug 25
A prolonged blackout in Gary, Indiana, is exposing weaknesses in America’s aging power grid. Thousands were left without electricity for more than two weeks after severe storms damaged local infrastructure. As crews rebuild power lines, federal experts are warning of a much larger risk: a coordinated attack on the US grid could potentially cause outages lasting up to 18 months. America’s power grid depends on aging equipment and foreign supply chains. Around 60% of distribution lines have exceeded their 50-year lifespan, while many large transformers are decades old. Replacing them is increasingly difficult: transformer wait times have grown from about 12 weeks to 128 weeks, and US manufacturers produce only 20% of domestic demand. Some critical high-voltage components also have no US-based supplier. Rapid AI data center growth, EV adoption, and factory electrification are putting new pressure on an already aging US grid. A single large AI data center can use as much power as 20,000 homes, while transformer demand is expected to more than double 2020 levels by 2027. With 70% of U.S. transmission lines over 25 years old, the grid has little room for error during extreme weather. Subscribe to our newsletter: cnews.link/newsletter-7/
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A journalist recently exposed how McDonalds keeps detailed dossiers on its regular customers...dossiers that are often HUNDREDS of pages long. Does this level of corporate surveillance surprise you at all? Are there any companies out there that might have a dossier on you that's this size?
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Streaming platform Twitch has started using creators' content and videos to train Amazon AI models, and automatically opted all creators in as the default. Do you find this move surprising? How about the company's response to community backlash?
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What mistake are they making, exactly? Needing clean water? Not wanting their air polluted?
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@techradarAug 24
Trump warns communities opposed to data centers are “making a mistake" techradar.com/pro/trump-warn…
Trump warns communities opposed to data centers are “making a mistake” — but Texas Gov. Greg Abbott...

Trump warns communities opposed to data centers are “making a mistake” — but Texas Gov. Greg Abbott...

Trump really wants people to like AI data centers, regardless of pollution and noise

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