I agree with you. Definitely look into using GPG with your email if you can.
Even if you feel you don't need to encrypt your email. Let me try to
convince you why you (and IMO everyone else) should.
* Firstly using GPG also comes with this nifty backwards feature called
signing. That way you can be sure it hasn't been modified by anyone in the
middle and you can be sure of who you are emailing.
*Leny2010 is right, it is about privacy not necessarily (although possibly)
secrecy. Lets say I want to email my Dad about something totally innocent.
Say where to have lunch this Friday. This is totally boring and innocent
subject. I will still encrypt my email to my Dad. This is because it simply
isn't anyone else's business to know that information. Not because I have
something to hide. I just don't want anyone else reading my emails. IMO if
I send an email to my Dad it should just be between me and my Dad. Not me,
my Dad, and google. Privacy is about sharing (and not sharing) what you want
with who you want.
*If you think people/computers don't read (or at least have the capability)
your email you are honestly kidding yourself. Google's computers read your
email all the time. Take the above scenario. If I email my Dad unencrypted
they would pop up a bunch of ad's for me about where to go have lunch. They
probably even know so much about you that they know what kinds of food you
like.
*Even if I have nothing to hide that doesn't mean I want to show everything.
