Mine isn't private. I hand my email out to anyone who wants it, including search engines and presumably AIs. It's right there on my website. If you want my email, I'll happily give it to you.
Emails are "personally identifiable".
Your email can be used to link almost every online purchase you've ever made for example. That is what makes them dangerous, and it's what we need to change to improve privacy. It should be possible for companies to send invoices and shipping notices without linking the order to the customer's email address (or their name, or street address, or any other personally identifiable information).
We're a long way from being able to do that with invoices and shipping notifications but there's a lot of other systems where emails aren't necessary and shouldn't be associated with a record - even though emails are not private.
Emails are "personally identifiable".
Your email can be used to link almost every online purchase you've ever made for example. That is what makes them dangerous, and it's what we need to change to improve privacy. It should be possible for companies to send invoices and shipping notices without linking the order to the customer's email address (or their name, or street address, or any other personally identifiable information).
We're a long way from being able to do that with invoices and shipping notifications but there's a lot of other systems where emails aren't necessary and shouldn't be associated with a record - even though emails are not private.