This may be due to policy activism on the side of governments.
I think asking service providers to use more E2EE is not the right approach. Governments' intelligence agencies do not shy away from infiltrating commercial vendors (from Yahoo! to the infamous Crypto AG - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG).
1. People should diversify across many, in particular smaller platform, so that surveillance cannot be done as it becomes a scale & long tail problem.
2. People should use P2P E2EE protocols and GPG-encrypted emails. The single biggest step forward would be easier ways to set up public key encrypted email part of e.g. Mozilla Thunderbird and other clients. But in parallel an attitude change is needed, for the receiving end needs to know how to open an encrypted email.
I think asking service providers to use more E2EE is not the right approach. Governments' intelligence agencies do not shy away from infiltrating commercial vendors (from Yahoo! to the infamous Crypto AG - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG).
1. People should diversify across many, in particular smaller platform, so that surveillance cannot be done as it becomes a scale & long tail problem.
2. People should use P2P E2EE protocols and GPG-encrypted emails. The single biggest step forward would be easier ways to set up public key encrypted email part of e.g. Mozilla Thunderbird and other clients. But in parallel an attitude change is needed, for the receiving end needs to know how to open an encrypted email.