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~ DidTheyReadIt.com, a new service costing $50 a year, allows a sender of e-mail to secretly track that e-mail to see whether anyone opens it, how long the recipient keeps it open, how many times it was opened, and where geographically the recipient read it. The whole process is invisible to the person who receives the message. Mitchell Kertzman of the technology investment firm Hummer Winblad says the service "violates our electronic space in a way that's as uncomfortable as someone violating our physical space. Add this company to the long list of people who are making the Internet a less attractive place to live and work." Technology expert Esther Dyson predicts that the service "will freak people out," but Case Western Reserve University professor Youngjin Yoo thinks people will be of two minds: "You will want to know how others treat your e-mail messages even if you don't necessary want others to know how you are treating theirs." [..]
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