The thing is, most people don't care about privacy. Even if the person knows about the broader privacy issue, he/she may not care. It's all about convenience and dopamine hit in the modern digitised world.

Also, the most privacy-respecting emails has less brand name recognition. Most people are accustomed to Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo. If they see Tuta as the email address, most people would think it's odd and maybe even fake. In an industry where reputation and name recognition is important, especially in legal, Tuta would sound suspicious. I know I would feel the same if I weren't familiar with Tuta and the lawyers uses Tuta. I know there is Proton, which has a more marketable name, but the CEO is a fascist-loving Trumper so it's not any better for privacy in the future.

[–] nqua@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

the point is that people who don't care go to lawyers to tell them how to move forward with appropriate caution. and privacy with a lawyers actual communication should be included. remember how lawyers (in movies tbh) often say 'let me talk, dont say anything at all', thats "maybe" because saying anything could reveal something the other party could use to win. if that doesnt include emails to be private, then why not directly use facebook or 4chan instead to tell the ither party how to win against your client? *lol

so if your lawyer doesnt take specific caution into account by himself what he would be supposed to tell you to do anyway, that lawyer is imo at best a risky bet.

[–] stormeuh@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I'd expect even small scale legal firms to have their own domain name with email these days, but even then that doesn't guarantee anything. If you have a subscription to either MS or Google's business suite, you can get custom domain email for basically the cost of registering the domain name.

The only way I see your data not touching any US cloud provider is with a tech-savvy and privacy-conscious lawyer, and I suspect those are rare. Large firms may also still have their own infrastructure, but those are probably expensive as hell.