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email privacy |
| Date: |
20/03/06 (100 review reads) |
| Rating: |
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Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Many
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 agencies. This might just be a complete conspiracy theory but the NSA (National Security Agency) in America should be able to pick up any email that uses certain keywords like US Government and Bomb or President and Kill. Again this is not a problem for most normal citizins but still not nice.
You also have the everyday hackers, lets face it anyone who has ever had a yahoo or hotmail address has probably had an email saying your account has been comprimised, send an email to this account with your username and password so we can check. Does anyone actually do this? It is the same as the Bank email confirmations where they want your complete bank details, surely no one still fills these out? But yet I still get on average 4 or 5 of these emails a week.
I would say that for a large number of people your email is reasonably secure, assuming you are clever in not giving out your password or filling out any online forms and are not involved in any terrorist or criminal activities.
For those who are involved in criminal activities, then at some point expect your email to be hacked.
EDIT:
Seemed to have missed the whole issue of Employers checking emails, so thought I would edit it in.
My view is that Employers have a duty to check all work email addresses because if they did not and something illegal was happening then they would most likely be liable.
I also think that you should only use work emails for work business and get yourself a hotmail or yahoo account for your personal emails and then who cares if the employer wants to check your email?
However, complete email privacy is just a joke as it is perfectly possible for a number of people to access into your account should they want / need / get a warrent to do so.
Summary: Nope, email privacy is just not available.
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