In the last century, email is the best invention of modern science. It makes our life very easy and reduces the waste of time for sending information. With email, a person can send data or information to another person anywhere in the world. However, the main matter of sorrow is that this greatest invention is now the sufferer of its own technology. Sometimes it is seen that a person can send emails to other people via cyberspace from the account by hacking into it or breaking the password. Thus, you will be unable to know that your email account is sending emails to a third person.

Twenty years ago, you could easy tell whether someone else read a letter by scrutinizing the condition of the envelope. However, this is impossible in the present email system. A third person may read a letter before you are able to read it. It is like the post card, which holds no envelope. In the same way, a third person can read yours before you can read it.

Here the most important question is who is reading your email besides you. The number can be more than your expectation. Sometimes email technology fails to secure our privacy, which can cause damages. These cases occurred due to an unprotected and unsecured email system. For instance, someone reads your email, which is mainly concerned with your contacts with your doctor. This mail can hold some information, which can be used against you. Therefore, this leak of privacy can cause a great destruction in your career, family life, business life and so many other scopes of your life.

In case of companies, there can be a huge loss caused by the breach of confidential information by a disloyal worker. Here the employee can send confidential information to other people by email. In another way, an opponent company can continue spy work against another company’s email account and can breach the security system to get all the confidential information. This breach can cause great damage to the company. Now the most concern is that, how people can protect themselves from these types of breaches of email privacy. Email is providing us same service as taking part in the conversation at personally. This technology also reduces our waste of time for communicating with other people. In past our communication was letter based and it was very time consuming and costly. Email saves our time and money. In most of the cases, our communication is email based. Therefore, privacy of email is a dire necessity for us. Encryption software is very important in this matter of security. Using this system one person can easily and safely communicate with each other without breach of privacy.

Different international companies and organizations are preparing more and more system for ensuring a better and safe mailing system. Furthermore, the users must be aware because without their help this crime cannot be removed. Therefore, every email users should be very conscious about privacy matters.