Re: Scope for self-destructing email?

[Matthias Merkel <[e-mail]>]

I really like your idea and basically I'm in. My company owns an email provider (we will release soon) and we'd love to implement this and help you work on it. If you need help writing some technical standard for it just email me!

On Aug 14, 2017 9:01 PM, vaibhav singh <[e-mail]> wrote:

Hi,

As some of you may already know, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), about to be enforced in the EU within months, and calls for strict regulations for Right to rectify communications, Right to be forgotten , Pseudonymisation and Data portability.

With regards to this, me and my friends were thinking about the idea of a self-destructing email, wherein the sender will mark the mail to be destroyed (expunged from the server) once the receiver(s) have finished reading it/after a time period chosen by the sender.

Another enhancement to this idea was a notification which will be sent from some (Exploding email RFC) compliant MUA, in case the receiver refuses to delete the email from the client. (I know Snapchat is a poor example here, but they apparently send notifications to the originator of the snap in case any receiver tries to capture the screenshot of the snap. This is, in theory, what we are trying to do here).

I would also like to know about things (working groups, internet drafts etc) which are being done to enforce GDPR to

email and Instant Messaging especially.

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Regards,

Vaibhav Singh