‘Email Providers Build Service to Protect Your Inbox From the NSA’ – ‘Mashable’

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai says, “In August, Ladar Levison, the founder of Lavabit — the email service provider allegedly used by Edward Snowden — decided to shut down the entire company rather than comply with abroad surveillance request.A few hours later, spooked by Levison’s extreme move, private communications startup Silent Circle abruptly and preemptively shut down its own email service, too“.