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If you could have your email provider based in any country, which one would you choose? Which one do you think has the best privacy protections? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 days ago by zdhzm2pgp@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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(This is a question for people like me who don't self host their email.)

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[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Makes me curious, I assume within the EU with GDPR it would be roughly equivalent.

What's the difference between EU countries then and why?

[–] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, not all EU countries share laws. There's the EU laws, and then there's the countries own laws. We (here in Denmark) is often a bit more secure, than most other countries - and because my provider is in the country I live in, if there are any disputes, they can be settled here, without spending a million on lawyer fees... :-)

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Which Danish laws go beyond GDPR?

[–] Core_of_Arden@lemmy.ml 0 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Well, you should read up on the "Databeskyttelsesloven" for one... Or "data protection law"...

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Thanks, skimmed through https://www.recordinglaw.com/world-laws/world-data-privacy-laws/denmark-data-privacy-laws/ but it's quite difficult to do a "diff" between one and the other. From reading it I didn't notice significantly better for my normal usage but I'm not a lawyer. It also makes me wonder, if you have done it, how do you know it's not better than say another random EU country also national specific modifications, e.g. Slovenia? Is there any "benchmark" somewhere that identifies which national changes are better?