For those who may not know, email is not owned by any one company. There are no copyrights or patents associated with email itself. It’s an open standard that evolves over time through RFCs. While individuals and companies are free to develop software—whether open or closed source—using this standard, the core of email remains unchanged.

My Suggestion: Make Metadata-Minimized Email the New Standard Currently, email consists of headers and a body. Even if the body is encrypted, the headers are not. These headers contain a significant amount of data that can be harvested, even if the message content remains unknown. This makes email inherently less private than other forms of electronic communication, and it’s one of its greatest vulnerabilities.