Last year, DuckDuckGo announced a free service designed to fend off email trackers and help people protect their privacy. The Email Protection beta was initially available through a waitlist. Now, ...

These days, data breaches and privacy concerns are rampant, so choosing the right email service is crucial. While free email providers may seem convenient, they often come with hidden costs to your ...

After a year of private beta testing, DuckDuckGo has made its email privacy tools available to everyone, so you can keep your real email address hidden and minimize tracking by marketers. But if ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Love it or hate it, email has become a part ...

ProtonMail, the Switzerland-based provider of an encrypted email service, has rebranded as Proton. The rebranding reflects the firm’s mission to bring privacy to the mainstream, states Varun Kabra, ...

Email masking services create burner addresses to protect your real inbox Tools from Apple, Mozilla, DuckDuckGo and others offer easy setup options Experts say replying through masked emails is key ...

A DuckDuckGo Email Protection service was last year launched as a limited beta, with a waiting list for those wanting to use it. The waitlist is now gone, and anyone can get access to it right away.

Rae Hodge was a senior editor at CNET. She led CNET's coverage of privacy and cybersecurity tools from July 2019 to January 2023. As a data-driven investigative journalist on the software and services ...