Politicians want your time and your donations, but they especially want to know if you've opened their emails — and perhaps even when, where and on what device. Here's how they can do it.
Getty Images: EpoxydudePoliticians want your time and your donations, but they especially want to know if you've opened their emails — and perhaps even when, where and on what device.Greens, Labor and Liberal Party as well as advocacy groups Advance Australia and GetUp found to use email trackingSecurity experts concerned about the privacy implications of email pixels
The ABC found various pixels in campaign emails sent by the Australian Greens, the Labor and the Liberal Party, as well as from lobby groups Advance Australia and GetUp. Surveillance is just one part of the picture: Emails often include links that, if clicked, can connect the recipient with the broader Facebook and Google-owned online ad networks common across the internet.
Emails sent by Australia's three major political parties as well as the two advocacy groups employed email open tracking, according to two digital specialists who examined several such messages.
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