If Your Emails Are Being Watched, These Simple Steps Will Help You Manage Your Privacy & Security
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Guest Author: Ambika Choudhary Mahajan
If you thought that your emails and the information inside them are safe as long as your account does not get hacked, it’s time for a nasty shock. Many governments across the world admit (some of them openly so) to snooping in on emails exchanged between people for various reasons, mainly for reasons of defence and
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When Google CEO was confronted with the question, this is what he said “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place”.
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Now while you might like to believe that you actually have nothing to hide when you finalize terms and conditions with your business partner or discuss your business volume, you surely wouldn’t want these confidential facts and figures to land into the hands of IT department, for example. Agencies like these have been known to create special software to keep a tab on the information being exchanged over Internet.
Fret not! You can maintain your confidentiality over email by sending encrypted emails.
8 Simple Steps To Encrypt Your Emails
There are various browser apps and extensions, which can help you send
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The best thing about SecureGmail is the fact that it encrypts messages even before they are sent and these messages can be then decrypted only with a password. Moreover, the service is completely free.The only limitation: the app is compatible only with Google Chrome. Both you and your mail recipient have to be Chrome users to be able to use this. Other browsers like Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer do not, unfortunately, support SecureGmail.
Follow these simple steps to get started:
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