Your inbox is basically a biography — password resets, bank statements, medical info, personal conversations.
The risks:
- Data breaches expose years of your life
- Account takeover = access to everything
- Authorities can request your entire history
What to do:
- Delete what you don’t need
- Download important stuff locally, then delete emails
- Search for sensitive keywords and clean up
- Use email aliases for signups
- Consider switching to secure email going forward
You wouldn’t keep every piece of mail from the last decade. Your inbox shouldn’t be different.