Here's another privacy concern. It can happen. Internet traffic passes through a myriad of computers while it travels from your computer to its cyberspace destination. At any point along the way, hackers can intercept and read your messages. Sensitive information, such as legal strategy or privileged client-attorney communications, can be lifted from your message without your knowledge.
Cookies are another potential privacy invader.
Cookies are generally harmless and can enhance your web experience by displaying customized content, like your local weather forecast, on a site you regularly visit. But cookies are also placed on your hard drive to track and profile your web visits, sometimes for good reason and sometimes for bad. It is possible that some insurance company and employer, or anyone else, can gain access to your profile and use its contents for purposes of discrimination or harassment. Impersonation, fraud, and other crimes that involve theft of personal information from online sources are also on the rise, as cyber-snooping becomes easier than ever. Easy Internet surveillance has even led to human rights abuses in countries that do not protect freedom of speech.