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To: Jim Burnham who wrote (5)2/8/2000 3:51:00 PM
From: caly  Read Replies (1) of 210
 
From InfoSecurity Magazine:

Email Tracking Invades Privacy

Various privacy and consumer organizations are imploring the Federal Trace Commission (FTC) to stop software makers from tracking people through e-mail. A security leak in software browsers allows people to be tracked unknowingly when they read unsolicited email.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Junkbusters Corporation and other such groups sent a letter and report, detailing the security hole, to the FTC in December. According to the report, the loophole affects people with e-mail readers formatted in HTML, as it allows a cookie, or identifying serial number, to be created when they read unsolicited email via a web browser. The cookie can then be matched to a person's email address and then sold to spammer's.

The report submitted to the FTC states that these breaches of privacy could be prevented if Microsoft Corporation and Netscape Communications closed security leaks in their browsers.
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