email privacy

Email is like sending letters by post. It should be sent over secure networks. This is done by encrypting messages. Since terrorists attacks on America, our and other governments check emails and other communications from people they suspect. That is not all though. There are programmes out there that senders of emails can use to find out information about the person who reads the sent email. These programmes can tell who reads the sent email, at which location and how many other people read it. What happens to the email. Is it deleted or kept on the system and how long user spent reading the email. Email companies, gmail and one other ...  Read the complete review

Many of us have probably sniggered at the stories of people who have sent a rude or suggestive e-mail boasting of a recent sexual conquest only to find said e-mail being distributed around the world for all to see and then the poor unfortunates finding themselves being hounded by the press. I mention this because at work we have just had the first member of staff sacked for sending an inappropriate mail to a work colleague, apparently the attachment that they sent contained a pornographic image and was detected by the companies monitoring systems. When some workers heard of this they were quite shocked because the person who revceived the mail ...  Read the complete review

Spam emails! We have all been victims of this. It can range from the fairly harmless email drop from a legitimate company trying to sell its wares all the way through to people trying to get money from you and to take your identity, and everything in between. Before I get into this I just want to let you know of a few facts so that you can see the actual scale of this issue. Stats The statistics below are current as of 2006, but Spam statistics are quickly outdated. These statistics were derived from a number of different reputable sources including: Google, Brightmail, Jupiter Research, eMarketer, Gartner, MailShell, Harris Interactive, and ...  Read the complete review

Hi Guys and Gals, i am not sure if this review is in the correct cat, but i will post it here anyway. Whilst checking my emails on friday evening, i came across one from a gentleman calling himself Mr Ahmed Kablan, he claims to work for the Eco Bank in Dakar, Senegal. He also claims that whilst going through some old accounts he came across one that has been left idle since 2001 and was in the name of a gentleman called Mr Ibriham Taha who worked for Civit Gold Mining in Sarl, mr taha has since died and his account contains $18.6 million american dollars. As Mr Taha's company knew nothing of this account and as there is no family to contend ...  Read the complete review

Now I should say that I love email, I think it is excellent for business purposes and sending information to clients, and also nice to be able to stay in touch with family and friends on a very cheap method. However, email privacy is another completely different issue. I would say that currently there is no complete email privacy, ISP (Internet Service Providers) can obviously access your emails if they want to, and can be forced to submit your details to government officials should they need to. This should not really be an issue with anyone who has nothing to hide, but it is not a nice thought. You also then obviously have all the Intelligence ...  Read the complete review