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Internet Archive Was Exposing User Email Addresses for Years Before Recent Breach
(theintercept.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2024
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Not really. Hasn't been since the beginning of email addresses. Because email addresses aren't required to link to a personal identity. They're just email addresses.
Until the day an email address require personal identification, it's not something you need to protect as private information.
Emails are personal data and are not allowed to be shown without specifically opting in for it. In Europe at least. Same for IP. This is also why when you "Recover Password" it will say something like "if this email address is found we'll send you a mail". So nobody can just check if an email exists on the service.
That has less to do with customer privacy and more to do with competitors exfiltrating your email lists. They aren't doing it out of the goodness of their hearts.
Depends on your personal acceptable levels of spam in your inbox, I suppose. Thus the common "junk email" and "good email I actually use" scheme many people today rely on. One of those emails I'll give out, the other is a closely guarded secret only available to a select few. I actually have a middle ground too of "not junk, but I don't know these people IRL," too.
It's hard to find an email service that doesn't ask for a phone number now a days. Even shit ass Proton mail does it now