BERLIN – Germany’s three biggest email providers announced Friday a partnership to bolster the security of messages sent between them in the wake of revelations of US online surveillance.
Telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom as well as GMX and Web.de, both subsidiaries of Germany’s United Internet, will automatically encrypt their email traffic from now on.
Email content as well as the identity of the sender and recipient and attachments will be encrypted, Deutsche Telekom and United Internet told reporters, presenting the “Email Made in Germany” initiative.
The email services of t-online.de, web.de and gmx.de represent two-thirds of private email accounts used in Germany, or more than 50 million email addresses, according to the companies.
Deutsche Telekom chief executive Rene Obermann said the leak, which detailed the US National Security Agency’s gathering of vast amounts of phone call logs and Internet data, had “deeply unsettled” users.
He said talks with other email providers aimed at widening the alliance have already taken place.
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