April 08, 2002
Is your e-mail watching you?
Is your e-mail watching you?
Web sites have long planted bits of code called "cookies" on consumers' hard drives to tailor Internet pages for returning visitors and better target ads. Now, enhanced messages that share the look and feel of Web pages are being used to deliver the same bits of code through e-mail, in many cases without regard for safeguards that have been developed to protect consumer privacy on the Web.
Posted by rshah at April 8, 2002 12:00 PM