Encrypted messaging company Skiff wants you to sign out of Google Workspace forever

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linkedin "Google, Amazon and Facebook have somehow turned the private human experience into the raw material of the digital economy," says Jason Ginsberg, CTO of Skiff.

The world needs an alternative workspace suite to Google, says Dan Guido, a longtime user of Skiff, a private, end-to-end encrypted email provider. Today, Skiff is taking a big step towards becoming a more private and secure replacement for the G Suite by adding end-to-end encrypted Calendar and Drive products to its suite, which also includes email and collaborative documents. called Skiff Pages.

“Google can see everything you write in documents,” says Guido, CEO of cybersecurity firm Trail Of Bits. "They can read all the emails you put into Google. They do machine learning there. They put it into a giant model that they calculate to produce ads. But Skiff can't do any of that. "

While it cannot guarantee users complete immunity from hackers or surveillance...