Email Test Data Needs a Privacy Budget

Teams often treat email test data as disposable, leading to sensitive information inadvertently accumulating in CI artifacts, tickets, and backups. To mitigate this privacy risk, a "privacy budget" should be assigned to email tests, defining limits on data collection, visibility, retention, and reuse. This approach promotes better engineering practices by ensuring responsible data handling and creating a more predictable debugging process while maintaining security and privacy.

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