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I never signed up for this! Privacy implications of email tracking

Englehardt et al., 2018

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6074764729576193328
Author
Englehardt S
Han J
Narayanan A
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Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies

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We show that the simple act of viewing emails contains privacy pitfalls for the unwary. We assembled a corpus of commercial mailing-list emails, and find a network of hundreds of third parties that track email recipients via methods such as embedded pixels. About 30% of …
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