Today email has become the most used form of communication. Whether using it for business or personal use, users expect that an email’s contents are read by its sender or recipient. However, today that’s not always the case being that anyone with access to data dumps from fiber-optic lines belonging to American telecom carriers will eventually be able to read email communications.
This Backgroundchecks.org article, “Hiding Your eMail: 172 Ways to Keep Everything You Do Online, Secure” offers a very comprehensive list for anyone seeking to keep their emails secure. Surely worth a read.