[FYI] DidTheyReadIt.com secretly tracks e-mail

[Jan Meyer <jan@synflood.in-berlin.de>]

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http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2004-05-20-email_x.htm


~ DidTheyReadIt.com, a new service costing $50 a year, allows a sender of
e-mail to secretly track that e-mail to see whether anyone opens it, how
long the recipient keeps it open, how many times it was opened, and where
geographically the recipient read it. The whole process is invisible to the
person who receives the message. Mitchell Kertzman of the technology
investment firm Hummer Winblad says the service "violates our electronic
space in a way that's as uncomfortable as someone violating our physical
space. Add this company to the long list of people who are making the
Internet a less attractive place to live and work." Technology expert Esther
Dyson predicts that the service "will freak people out," but Case Western
Reserve University professor Youngjin Yoo thinks people will be of two
minds: "You will want to know how others treat your e-mail messages even if
you don't necessary want others to know how you are treating theirs."
[..]

example:
http://www.didtheyreadit.com/receipt/default.htm



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