CDR: Re: Software to Track E-Mail Raises Privacy Concerns

Tom Vogt tom at ricardo.de
Fri Nov 24 03:59:21 PST 2000


"A. Melon" wrote:
> The technology in question is seemingly innocuous: the ability of the latest e-mail programs to send and display images. E-mail senders use the feature, based on the Web's computer language, to create colorful messages known as HTML mail.
> 
> But many also use it to embed tiny images that are invisible to the recipients. Marketers call them pixel tags and say they are used to gauge the success of e-mail campaigns. Privacy advocates prefer a more ominous name Ñ Web bugs.
> 

one more reason that HTML in e-mails should die.






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