It’s impossible to be certain of safety while using Gmail, Yahoo mail and other web-based email systems. The best solution is a radical one: It’s time to return to plain, text-only email.
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Do you reply to emails first thing in the morning and last thing at night? Your company should be insisting that you don’t.
As a part of human interaction, emails are as nuanced and complex as the social world we find them, and it is unlikely that we can rely on a checklist of quick-fix rules.
Even if fake articles could be curbed and filtered news modified, there’s something built into Facebook’s anatomy that foments partisan rage.
Despite years of public information efforts, even simple cyberattacks still succeed. Here are five steps to avoiding having your emails appear on WikiLeaks.
Huma Abedin’s emails belong to her; the search warrant should be served upon her. Once that happens, she can challenge the warrant’s legality.
The FBI has a history of abusing search warrants to illegally read Americans’ emails. Did the agency just do it again, in the highest of all high-profile situations?
We don’t expect our own government to hack our email – but it’s happening, in secret, and if current court cases go badly, we may never know how often.
For centuries, written communication was tinged with formality and finality. But since the emergence of casual forms like texting, using proper grammar can be fraught with misinterpretation.
France is introducing a ‘right to disconnect’ law, but it may struggle to get businesses in line.
How long will it be before we can open doors and send emails with just our minds?
Emoticons reveal subtle clues about your personality – but how do others interpret them?
In the age of the smartphone, it’s often hard to switch off after work. Here’s how employment law can help.
Email has been around for many decades and its death has been predicted many times. Love it or hate it, we still need it for communication at work and in our private lives.
Workplace surveillance is creating a culture of suspicion that harms employers and their staff.
Technology can work for us, or against us. Sometimes both at the same time.
The fact that we have embraced the notion of emailing a tree is no surprise. We have been passionate about trees in cities for a long time.
There’s ways to help tackle digital distraction - but they all revolve around you wanting to change.
The email address as we know it was born when Ray Tomlinson introduced the “@” sign in 1977, since which email has continually grown in popularity as a communication tool for work and pleasure – until…
This year saw the 43rd anniversary of email. Compared to a human working life, email has after more than four decades on the job now reached retirement age. Is it time for email to step aside to allow…
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