Wasn’t Google revealed to be getting tapped at unencrypted points in its network by the Snowden leaks? I’m guessing they had way way more than 6tb of emails stolen by that program.
Yes. But it's also true that if you live in a country with a lot of powerful intelligence agencies, and one of those intelligence agencies wants access to your data, they will get it through some means or another. It doesn't really matter how secure your practices are.
By using Google you are defacto tapped. But if you use a small provider, you'll only be tapped if they can be bothered with you, which for the average folk is quite unlikely.
