As privacy protection, he cuts e-mail addresses from Alexa's listings, so even a subpoena couldn't elicit which individual went where.

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That means women are less likely to sign up for fraud protection programs like text message or e-mail alerts that warn of abnormal transactions.

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Saying an old e-mail or your online photo album should have the same privacy protection from police as your home filing cabinet, Google, Microsoft and others said Tuesday they will ask Congress to overhaul a 24-year-old federal law that helps define online and mobile phone privacy.

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The ICO said inquiries revealed the junior doctor had not been aware of the trust's data protection policies and did not have access to e-mail to receive policy reminders and updates.

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And a footer stating that nothing in the e-mail should be used to break the law would be of no protection to a lawyer or financial adviser sending a message that did suggest something illegal.

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Some Web-based e-mail services like Google's Gmail offer tools to add an extra layer of protection.

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Resetting the preferences in the e-mail client to the ISPs mail server will fix the problem, but will disable protection by Poproxy.

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