Apple has failed to fix a vulnerability with their "Hide My Email" tool that can expose a user's real email address, according to cybersecurity researchers and journalists: https://www.404media.co/apple-hide-my-email-vulnerability-reveals-peoples-real-email-addresses/

One of our most useful and vital features isn't our encryption or our owned and operated infrastructure...it's our support team of REAL HUMANS! When you're having issues, a real human who genuinely wants to help makes all of the difference in the world.

The U.S. House of Representatives has fast tracked and passed the KIDS Act, "a Privacy and Free Speech Disaster" that stitches together over a dozen failed bills that seek to age-gate the Internet: reclaimthenet.org/the-house-ju...

Countries and regions across the globe are passing Age Verification laws that mandate certain websites and users to check that all users are over a certain age. While advocates claim that these laws "protect children", they put EVERYONE at risk: https://www.startmail.com/age-verification

They've been busted for invading our privacy without permission, harming our mental health, making their products as addictive as possible, and pursing short term private at the cost of everyone and everything else. Yet some users STILL seem to think that Big Tech are their friends...

You may have had your free email address for years now...but the world we live in now uses your email to track your every move and fill your inbox with spam. It's time to stop giving out your real email address. Do exactly what this user says!

Android users...you didn't think we would forget about you, did you? The best way to protect your device and your data is to strictly limit what data your apps can access. That means auditing permissions REGULARLY!

Google appears to be working on a feature for the Pixel that will “keep track of what you hear throughout your day, from the music around you to your important conversations": https://9to5google.com/2026/06/22/google-pixel-audio-memory/

Journalists have uncovered at least a dozen incidents where police officers have utilized Flock cameras to illegally stalk people, a figure that experts warn is "a vast underreporting of the overall abuse": https://www.404media.co/cops-keep-getting-arrested-for-using-flock-to-stalk-people/

National and local law enforcement agencies have begun circulating reports of "Anti-Tech Extremism" as more citizens actively oppose the rollout of AI and the construction of new data centers: https://www.wired.com/story/us-law-enforcement-warns-of-anti-tech-extremism/

Do you know what data your apps can access on your phone? Even if you're wary, apps update all the time and employ all sorts of tricks to gain access to your data. Do this ten minute phone permission audit NOW! No seriously, now.

QUICK! Do you know exactly what data all of your apps are collecting? Are you SURE?? That's why you need to perform this quick app permissions audit, so that you can take control of your data BACK! Do it now! Yes, NOW!

Hackers are stealing login credentials for high profile Instagram accounts (like Sephora's and Barack Obama's) by simply asking Meta AI to give it to them: https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/

Giving apps access to your data is about WAY more than functionality. Yyou may not even know what they can learn with it! Read our latest blog article to learn more about the data apps gather and how to adjust your settings to protect yourself! https://www.startmail.com/review-these-app-permissions

WAIT! Before you tap "Accept", do you know just how much information that tech companies, advertisers, and data brokers can gather with that data? If not, then it's time for you to read our latest blog article...

Other providers offer a "free tier" that doesn't actually let you have the full experience: severely limited storage, no features, no support whatsoever. We offer a trial where you can utilize EVERY feature and get the full experience.

So what if your "free" email provider sends a bunch of spam and ads to your inbox? You can just delete them, right? It's not that simple. Your email provider sold your personal data so that someone could target you. Also, email ads are FULL of trackers, spyware, and other ways to monitor you.

Why trust us with your email and your data? It's an extremely valid question. First, we're one of the first fully private email services, and have been in business for over a decade. More importantly, we were made to serve YOU, not shareholders or advertisers.

When our subscribers are our sole source of revenue, our only priority is keeping you safe and satisfied. We don't have VC backers or shareholders to please, no quarterly projections to meet at all costs. This is why our customers stick around!

So why are we so obsessed with users' privacy? Our right to privacy is a lynch pin to protecting so many more of our human rights. You can't have freedom of thought or expression if you don't get to choose which aspects of your life stay private.

Now that tech giants are trying to force AI on all of us, expect a whole new crop of half truths and whole lies about these new AI agents and why we should use them. Don't fall for it! AI agents are unpredictable and have already caused hundreds of leaks and security incidents!

How does our private email service actually work? Every StartMail user has their own encrypted vault on our owned and operated servers. No one (and we mean NO ONE) can access any of the data in your vault until you log in...not even us!

Thousands of happy customers can't be wrong, can they? StartMail has what you need: world class encryption, intuitive design, easy migration, powerful features, real human support...and nothing that you don't: spam, ads, cumbersome membership tiers, or shareholders.

When other email providers advertise end-to-end encryption, they're only talking about messages sent to OTHER people with encrypted email. So what happens when you need to send an encrypted message to someone without a private email account? We have a feature for that!

It seems like staying private these days is impossible for anyone who isn't a hacker or software engineer. But don't fear! Private email can keep some of your most sensitive data out of the wrong hands, and our alias feature can also keep your main email address hidden entirely!

There's a reason we talk about our unlimited email alias feature a lot. Your email address is used to track your accounts and activity, the two go hand in hand!

We're always proud whenever happy users talk about why they like being StartMail subscribers. But when one of those users also happens to be a YouTube channel that teaches users how to protect their digital privacy, we truly could not be happier to do what we do!

You may know that our company started as a private search engine. But why did we choose to do email from there? Simple, your email address is the nexus of how you communicate with people on the internet, and we're still leading the charge today with features like unlimited aliases!

Nowadays, we hear companies and governments use the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" argument all the time. But did you know that the phrase predates social media, the internet, or computers? Read all about this slogan's history and how to counter it: startmail.com/nothing-to-hide-nothing-to-fear

It's hard to understand just how much data that non-private search engines and platforms gather on you. Listen to our founder describe the detailed information he found a search engine gathering OVER A DECADE AGO before he decided to champion privacy and start our company!