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What qualifies as being truly private/anonymous email in your book? Or does such a thing even exist?
Based on the reading I've done, it doesn't really seem like one exists - it's just not what email was designed to do. I'm not an infosec professional, but that's the impression I've been given by others in the field.
Email was designed decades ago, before the concept of data-mining even existed. It probably didn't occur to the creators how universally accepted it would be. Much less rampant.
That being said, its' privacy is entirely dependent on who stores your data and whether they give a shit.