We all have probably experienced using e-mail programs which provide auto-complete features. So if I were sending an email to Bob Smith and wasn’t paying enough attention there is a high possibility that I could send that email to Joe Smith. This is a problem since we not only reveal the other person’s email-address but now we can associate them to where they work as well. There are of course many ways we can prevent such problems from occuring. Some of them are mentioned in the article below.
E-mail poses privacy problems

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