[House Atreides]

Swordmaker, see the below linked article.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2015/12/ecpa_reform_the_sec_wants_to_undermine_important_email_privacy_legislation.html

Question for you if you know: Would my emails (sent from my iMac, iPhone or iPad using Verizon as my Internet service provider) be in an encrypted state as they reside on Verizon’s server?

I didn’t know there was such a thing as “administrative subpoenas” allowing government access for messages over 180 days old. I always thought that to get such access required a warrant, based on probable cause and signed by a judge.

[AFreeBird]

Can’t address Verizon. But if you were to switch your email over to iCloud.com, those emails, and everything else in the cloud will be encrypted. And as you have an iTunes account already, all you have to do is activate your iCloud account.

I keep my Comcast account for junk stuff, but I’ve moved my personal stuff over to iCloud.

[Swordmaker]

Question for you if you know: Would my emails (sent from my iMac, iPhone or iPad using Verizon as my Internet service provider) be in an encrypted state as they reside on Verizon’s server?

As far as I know, unless an email content is specifically encrypted by some application such as PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), email is transmitted in text or standard HTML code. The carriers do use a generic encryption for which they hold the keys and almost every hacker worth his daily salt has copies of those keys, as do law enforcement agencies. PGP keys are public one way but are breakable with back doors available to authorities and hackers. There are methods to transmit your messages that no one but you and the recipient can understand. Andrew