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+-   Australian Company Spies on You Reading Emails on Sunday June 15 2008, @02:14PM shervinafshar

Submitted by shervinafshar on Sunday June 15 2008, @02:14PM
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shervinafshar writes "International Herald Tribune published a story about what makes you not receive a delivery-failed email and "request a receipt" feature being inappropriate. In last lines of the article, two companies are introduced which provide services that can "spy" on your email reading habits. They also can "call home" too:

Some entrepreneurs have seen that uncertainty and offered senders the ability to obtain receipts that a given message has been read — without the recipient knowing that a confirmation has been sent back to the sender. ReadNotify, based in Queensland, Australia, started in 2000 and promised to report not only on whether a message was read, but also on how long it was opened for reading on the recipient's PC. It can also send the message in "self-destructing" form, preventing forwarding, printing, copying and saving.
IHT also is asking its reader to comment about these kind of services being against user privacy."
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