Security News > 2017 > October > The privacy implications of email tracking

Emails are a widely used means for third parties to tie your email address to your activities across the web, Princeton University researchers have discovered. The extent of email tracking Email tracking was originally aimed at allowing senders to know whether the recipient has read the sent email. Unfortunately, many third parties also receive this information. “Email tracking is possible because modern graphical email clients allow rendering a subset of HTML,” Steven Englehardt, Jeffrey Han, … More →

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