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Personally, I would definitely rather employ someone who's made a conscious choice about their e-mail provider...
How is choosing MS not making a conscious decision about privacy? Companies choose MS specifically because it has very strong controls to protect information. Same with workspaces to a lesser degree.
MS? Microsoft? The question mentioned GMail, which would be Google.
MS365 is pretty much the business default. But same question then. How does workspaces spy on your privacy?
I have no idea. I was talking about GMail, not about Workspaces. OP wants to use their personal e-mail to apply to a job.
I mean, assuming Workspaces is a service by either Google or Microsoft (they both have an offering called similar to that), if you're outside the US, they are required by US law (PATRIOT act & CLOUD act) to provide customer data to the US intelligence services.
See, for example, the recent news that the European Commission may not use MS365: https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2024/european-commissions-use-microsoft-365-infringes-data-protection-law-eu-institutions-and-bodies_en
That's the baseline, how all US-based services leak data, but obviously, how much data they leak, depends on how much data is stored unencrypted on their servers. And that's where GMail is significantly worse than most services.
I misread