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Responding to the ever-growing amount of email can be a stress-inducing job task. (Shutterstock)

October 30, 2019

Making email more efficient means answering more emails even faster

Crystal Chokshi, University of Calgary

Google’s Smart Compose feature is meant to help deal with the deluge of email, but does it increase the pressure to respond quicker?

For safety, look to text-only messaging. The Conversation, via picascii.com, publicdomainpictures.net and kelvinsong

September 11, 2017

The only safe email is text-only email

Sergey Bratus, Dartmouth College and Anna Shubina, Dartmouth College

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.

South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa claims the country’s security agencies hacked his emails. GCIS

September 7, 2017

Leaked emails: Ramaphosa’s hypocrisy on spying by the South African state

Jane Duncan, University of Johannesburg

It would be no surprise if Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa’s claims of the state spying on him turn out to be true. After all, state spy agencies have been abused before in ANC factional battles.

August 27, 2014

Google must make Android safer – our data is at risk

Andrew Smith, The Open University

Over the past few months, the Android platform developed by Google and based on the Linux operating system has been having a difficult time. Hackers, with malicious intent and those without, have been…

Legally, you’ve agreed to have your emails scanned – but what about morally? enggul

August 16, 2013

Your emails are all scanned – and that’s what you agreed to

David Tuffley, Griffith University

According to Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, “all human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret”. It is in our nature to want privacy, yet in the internet age, it has never been easier…

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