Private mail with Kolab Now
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The Kolab Now mail service offers one thing you won't get from mainstream cloud mail: no spying.
Today's Internet economy depends on users trading their privacy for services. In the United States, millions of people are active on Facebook, tagging themselves in photos every morning and before they go to sleep at night. Some users are willing to give their home address, email ID, and phone number to random stores just to get a two percent discount.
Internet mail services such as Gmail and Outlook.com capitalize on the lack of attention to privacy by scanning messages to gather information on their users and then using that information to get money from advertising customers. However, not everyone chooses convenience over privacy. Some users still care about keeping their communications private – both from government and from service vendors who want to profit from the personal information of their users.
The Kolab Now [1] hosted groupware service offers an alternative for users who want to keep their mail private. Kolab Now, a relaunch of the MyKolab service, is based on the open source Kolab groupware tool [2].
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