What does it mean by email privacy?
Email Privacy means securing emails and keeping them safe, whether in transit or when they are stored on a server or network. The process of email covers multiple things like sender’s device, receiver’s device, their respective networks/servers, ISP’s, etc. And in this entire process, the systems or the networks are capable of being attacked by a hacker/attacker at multiple stages.
To safeguard the businesses, the organizations need to have a proper system in place so that the assets can be safeguarded. Tampering with emails, phishing, malicious software installation, Spoofing attacks can all be avoided if these protocols are in place and installed in all the devices of the business.
What is the importance of email privacy?
Nowadays the majority of business electronic communications happen through email. And employees cannot afford to sacrifice the reliability and authenticity of their mailboxes. From the sales reports, important strategic business conversations to the latest sales reports, payments reports, all the important user data remains on the emails. And the data being sent/received through encrypted emails is the confidential property of the business. One single wrong click may lead to a data security breach which may expose all the strategic and confidential information of the Company. And in case, the competitor of the organization gets to know such sensitive information, it may lead to huge losses to the organization. And hence email encryption must be the cornerstone of any business’s security plan.
Below are the 6 benefits that you may expect from mail encryption:
- It avoids business risks
- Safeguard confidential data collection
- It nullifies message replay chances
- Identity theft is avoided
- Rejects sent messages
- Backups
Sometimes the email may feel more close in the exact way a private communication does, but the actual thing is that email is so private in any of the ways. In reality, emails are interdicted and identical forms of conversations, in case they are unencrypted.
In the place of work, there are Hackers not the only third party threat to email privacy concerns, law officials, and even internet service givers, all can check to continue and view the email communications again. For organizations & businesses, this may become a problem, very easily, because it has the accessibility to disrupt the decryption key email privacy laws.
How do email clients operate and what data do they collect?
As an email client, Spark requires access to some of the information. It is not possible to use an email app that may not ingress your email account. We always take your personal information only when it is essential to make Spark work exactly as your expectation.
- Read and send emails
Spark must check and send the emails from an individual’s email account.On other hand, you will not be able to see or compose emails in any way. That’s how each client of email works.
For some services, e.g- Gmail, Yahoo, outlook, etc, some application-specific tokens are stored. And the meaning of this is- we do not have your real password. You can dismiss this token of accessing the details at any time from your Gmail account on the particular website. For instance, if you are an email user, you can use the services like Exchange, AOL, and customization IMAP accounts, and yes this introduction token is your email account’s login & password. You may also make a special password for the app for the connection with the account to Spark (for instance, it is needed for iCloud accounts).
- Receive notifications
To send and compose the notifications, Spark synchronizes the part and subject of the email, encrypts the details & stores them on their safe servers, and ensures data privacy. Encryption meaning is that humans may not observe the contents of the emails.
Hence encryption key (Public key, Private key) is saved on the device sectionally, that’s why only you have the ingression to this.
- Advanced email features
The mail contents that you get and send are generally stored on the network. The email accounts like Gmail, Yahoo, that you receive and send are commonly stored on the server of the email account like- Gmail, Yahoo, outlook, etc.