Yes, encryption, it's perfectly safe....
See:
http://trustprivacy.ggvasia.com
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in an ever growing list of companies you really don't want to trust.
See:
http://trustprivacy.ggvasia.com
What's needed are alternatives to these Tech icons and increased media coverage of their escapades (i.e. more bad PR for them), to get people to switch to something else. A pretty tall order, given that the major news outlets (CNN, etc.) even Hollywood, (that movie last summer portraying Google as a fine upstanding company!), seem to do the opposite.