YOUR EMAILS AREN’T SAFE from prying eyes. Google collects data from Gmail, which is crucial business. It stopped directly scanning emails in 2017, but still collects data on your activities. DuckDuckGo is an advocate of privacy and its search engine won’t track you. It has extended this approach to emails with its Email Protection service. It’s not a traditional account, but a forwarding service. You get a @duck address, and your emails are funneled through this from your original address, with all tracking codes being stripped out of messages. DuckDuckGo claims that, during beta testing, 85 percent of messages contained hidden trackers. The system can create a unique private address, making tracking more difficult. Until data collection is responsibly handled, such services are the only way to ensure you aren’t being watched.