Did you know that every time you open an email, the sender can see when and where you opened it, how many times you opened it, and even what device you read it on? That’s because of “spy pixels,” and they’re everywhere.
How Emails Spy On You
Email is about the least secure way to communicate. It’s unencrypted, so it can be read by anyone, anywhere on its journey across the Internet, like a postcard, not a sealed letter. But email has always been that way.
Tracking pixels are even worse. They give the sender an obscene amount of information about you, without asking for your consent once. What’s going on? Can you protect yourself?
“The privacy implications are that anyone can see when and even where you open your email,” Phillip Caudell, developer of the privacy-focused email app Big Mail, told Lifewire via email.
