In addition, for Gmail and iOS ToutApp users, there are a few other changes rolling out today, too, including a new Email Activity Feed for real-time tracking of emails, an improved interface for ToutApp's Gmail integration and an updated iOS app that allows you to edit templates, send messages while on the go, and view email analytics on mobile.
But not all threats to privacy involve the tracking of emails and other communications.
The documents note that the "bodies" of emails are in fact searchable, meaning that the NSA has the ability to go far and beyond the simple tracking of email metadata.
Keeping track of your emails and staying on top of your calendar might be hard enough, but for American software developer Chris Dancy, life doesn't feel complete without several hundred data sets about his life being fed to him simultaneously at all times.
For some of us, emails have a way of accumulating faster than trolls in a comment section, and it can become an arduous task to keep track of which emails are top priority and which are your ex-girlfriend telling you to come and pick up your stuff.
As for email, Facebook's messaging system is also built right into the app making it unnecessary to send lengthy messages through email (who wants to keep track of friends' email addresses anyway when you can look them up by name?).
Get live updates from social networks such as Facebook and Twitter and keep track of new email from your Yahoo! or Gmail accounts directly on the homescreen.
In short, they state that Carrier IQ's data collection consists of carrier-specified metrics, doesn't track the content of emails or text messages, doesn't happen in real-time, and is encrypted.
As a consequence, it said, authorities would be able to: track email and email attachments sent over the consumer-version of Blackberry Internet Service (BIS).
