Just because you are not paranoid doesn't mean they are not reading your Gmail

by Davey Winder

Wednesday, 09 July 2008

Page 1 of 2 ! Ever wondered if someone is reading your Google Mail messages? Well now, courtesy of a new Google privacy tool (oh the irony) you can find out... Here at iTWire we have, as you would expect, been following the YouTube/Viacom affair with much interest. From reporting on the court ruling for Google to hand over YouTube video viewing data to Viacom in the first place, through to the apparent decision not to appeal and by so doing give YouTube users the privacy finger. So when I spotted that The Inquirer was reporting how Google has started to roll out a new privacy feature for Gmail users, well I just had to find out more. To be honest, after the Viacom fiasco, Google could really do with some good publicity with regards to user privacy. I think it might have just got some. The trouble being it is only a very little bit of good news and stands comparison to using a band aid to stem the blood flow after your leg has been bitten off by a shark. Anyway, the new privacy feature that Google has apparently started to roll out allows users to see how many computers their account is currently open on. What's more it enables them to then sign out remotely. As The Inquirer's Sylvie Barak says "This will be a fairly welcome development because, until today, the only way to log out after stupidly forgetting to properly log off on a public computer was to change passwords." Assuming, that is, the stupid user even knew that someone else was able to access their account from another computer of course. But it gets better. The real privacy interest is hidden deeper, and will let you snoop on the snoopers reading your mail. Read on to discover the how, what and where... CONTINUES << First page <   1 2 Next page > Last page - Post your comment >>

 

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