I do not want to use Gmail to send that kind of informations and I'm
comtemplating using posteo.de.
Is this any better?
I'd argue of course it's better. Google openly admits reading your
e-mail, so other mail providers that respect your privacy should be
preferred. I particularly like posteo.de, because the 1€/month fee is
still very cheap but makes clear that they have a different business
model that doesn't involve customer data. Furthermore, they deploy a
very sophisticated solution that makes it technically impossible to
match payment data or IP addresses to mailboxes, and even fought (and
won!) a lawsuit against the German authorities that wanted to force
posteo to hand out customer data (which they don't even collect).
However, while this will surely be an improvement over providers like
Google, it doesn't solve the encryption problem. While providers like
posteo make it easy for laypeople to use encryption, for example by
providing good instructions and supporting gpg encryption in their
webclient, you'd probably still need to help a layperson in setting up
their gpg keys, either in thunderbird or in the webclient of a provider
supporting this. So if the person is willing to try encryption, you're
probably best off by helping them doing it before sending your personal
information.
Hope that helps a bit,
lukaro
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