‘Big Brother’ watching e-mail, computer data: US report
If you think you private information on the Internet is safe from prying eyes, think again. The advancement of such technology has made more information readily available to government investigators than ever before which give them more powers eaving a treasure trove of personal data prey to government surveillance, a new report warned.
From the article
Modern consumers live in an age when web based e-mails pileup on services like Microsoft’s Hotmail and Google’s Gmail, and all kinds of files from personal photos to bank, medical and travel records are stored online.
Few computer users realise however, that web based e-mail is subject to much weaker protections than messages stored on home computers.
