Article 3ADEN Your inbox is full of spyware-riddled emails that are both potentially very harmful to you and also very easy to disable

Your inbox is full of spyware-riddled emails that are both potentially very harmful to you and also very easy to disable

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Cory Doctorow
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It is routine for companies -- and even individuals -- to send emails with "beacons," transparent, tiny images that have to be fetched from a server. Through these beacons, companies can tell whether you've opened an email, whom you've forwarded it to, and even your location from moment to moment. (more")

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