There are several free email options, but most people choose Gmail, Yahoo ! or Hotmail ?. Google Gmail is the leading open platform with 425 million users. Gmail users are targeted by spammers and collectors email and even hackers that want to send an email to the contact list of a user.
Gmail has several integrated features including G +. Because of G + and Gmail broad, it is not surprising that these two platforms have become fertile ground for advertisers. Before thinking about your private information is safe, two privacy issues have surfaced that you should be aware of:
1. Users (including advertisers) are able to email your Gmail never know your email address.
2. Google analyzes the content of emails to display ads in Gmail
G + and Gmail integration
Social networks, by definition, are not deprived, because the point of using a social network platform is to display your personal information to one who has access to your profile. With platforms such as Facebook, interaction is completely through the Facebook web application and your information is only available when you enter.
With G + and Gmail, the two services are linked into a single Google Account. Google used to keep each separate service, but your Google services are now under one umbrella account. Not only linked your email to your G + account, but Google service you use is associated with an email account.
If you have never used G +, there is a spin on popular social media networks. Instead of "friending" someone, you people "circle". Anyone can add you to their circles, but you must surround that person in return to share private messages. With G +, anyone found you can surround yourself and share information with you.
At the surface, it seems innocent enough. Your email address will not be visible to everyone, even if they surround you. You can also circle the people, and they will not be able to view your private email unless you post them through the G + system.
The problem comes when a user wants to send you a message. G + allows you to send private messages to anyone. You can also send group messages to people you circled. This means that advertisers can send messages to hundreds of users they found on G +.
Before you decide to send a message back like asking the advertiser to remove you, think again. Once you answer, the advertiser your email address. This means that your email address could get added to the advertiser's mailing lists. A common way for spammers to make money is selling email lists, so not only do receive email you the original sender, but your email address sold can be used by a number of spammers.
To add to the security questions, if the provider is hacked email list, it's possible that the hacker can access your email account. If the attacker is able to associate the stolen data with your email address and password, the attacker can use the information to hack into your personal accounts. For this reason, it is important to keep different passwords for different accounts. For example, never use the same password for your banking password you use for email accounts.
Fortunately, Google is making some changes to G +, and one of those changes is the ability to disable unsolicited email G +. When they drive the changes, you will have the ability to filter private messages from people you have not circled.
Google, ads and private Your Email
With email being an integral part of people's lives, you need to protect his username and password and content. If you have already noticed the ads in Gmail, it is Google Adsense. Adsense is an advertising platform for publishers. Google includes a scanning program that allows the search engine to read your mail. The algorithm reads your email and determines which ads appear in your Gmail account. For example, if you have a conversation about red widgets, Gmail displays ads targeting red widgets.
targeted ads are good for advertisers, but what does that mean for your privacy? Google algorithms have always been top secret, but it has been reported that Google scans your email and selling email addresses to advertisers. Google even went to court to defend the right of the company to analyze email messages to display ads that target your private messages.
Although this question may not seem important to some people, the problem is that your privacy is invaded. There are no security checkpoints that protect your information to be stored and reused by Google advertisers.
The issue of privacy should be important to everyone. Reading e-mails, any kind of email is scanned including private emails to your family or emails dealing with financial or medical information.
One way to avoid the scans email advertisements is to open your Gmail account from your mobile device. Gmail ads are not displayed on a mobile device such as an iPhone. When you download your email, it is downloaded from a special link that Gmail does not include ads.
Another way to avoid the problem is to automatically transfer your Gmail account to another email account. Gmail allows you to forward all messages to another account personal domain. Make ahead to an email account that you use to download email on a separate mail client like Outlook or Thunderbird.
With privacy being a problem, never send personal information such as user names and passwords by email. Not only is it a dangerous way to share credentials, but it gives your information to hackers if they are able to access your email.
Before you jump to another service provider, remember that Yahoo! email was hacked and the accounts and passwords were shared as plain text in 2012. The question is not flat -form. The question is the security of the platform.
The best way to avoid confidentiality issues is to use e-mail accounts with your own domain name. A domain costs about $ 20. With a domain, you can buy a messaging service for just a few dollars a month. The result is your own private email without ads or scanners.
For G +, while you wait for the updates to privacy, never respond to an email if you do not recognize the sender.
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