# Email security tools privacy ratings

Tools that check or improve the privacy of email.

| Name | Grade | Jurisdiction | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [DKIM Verifier](https://privacyratings.com/email-security-tools/dkim-verifier/) | B (80/100) | Unknown | Thunderbird add-on that verifies DKIM signatures and shows the result in the message header, to help spot spoofed email. |
| [Email Privacy Tester](https://privacyratings.com/email-security-tools/email-privacy-tester/) | B (80/100) | Unknown | Tests whether your mail client "reads" emails before you open them, and what analytics, read-receipts or other tracking data it leaks back to the sender. |
| [Paperweight](https://privacyratings.com/email-security-tools/paperweight/) | B (80/100) | Unknown | Local-first desktop app that scans an inbox to list the services holding your data, then helps unsubscribe and send data deletion requests. |

## Criteria

- **Open source** (weight 3): Is all the source code needed to run the product public?
- **No trackers or telemetry** (weight 3): Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
- **No ads or data sales** (weight 2): Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
- **Independent audit** (weight 2): Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?

Source: https://privacyratings.com/email-security-tools/