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welcome to defending digital I'm Chad Warner today's topic use BCC blind carbon copy to protect privacy in email have you ever received a mass email sent to dozens of addresses with your email address in the two or CC field maybe that email was sent to a group of people you know or maybe it was sent to a group of strangers how did you feel about your email address being shared with everyone else maybe you're upset or maybe you never thought about it I'd like to tell you why this is a privacy issue you should care about and what you can do about it the threats when a person receives an email that has multiple email addresses in the two or CC field they can see who the email was set to why does that matter most people won't do anything with those addresses well some people might be curious or nosy and looking to who receive the email they may even do some online snooping to find details about the other recipients on social media or elsewhere online in rare cases someone may target one of the other recipients in the form of harassing threatening hacking or scamming emotions person doesn't need to move against the owner of the email address right away they can save the email address to target at any point in the future it's not only humans who can act against the owners of the reveal the email addresses malware can search a computer or mobile device for email addresses when it finds an email with a long list of addresses in the - or CC fields it can harvest them it can then send spam or malicious emails to those addresses or save those addresses to be the target of hacking scamming identity theft etc unfortunately the reveal the email addresses don't necessarily stop with the recipients any one of the recipients can forward the email and the email addresses of all the other recipients will be forwarded along with the email I've been forwarded many emails that include long lists of email addresses Silva which appear to be internal company addresses which aren't intended for use outside the company how can you increase your privacy and security maybe you've noticed that when you send an email you can put addresses into the to field the CC field or the BCC field the to field is for recipients whom you want to read and we act on your email the CC or carbon copy field is for recipients whom you want to read your email to be aware of it but you're not asking them to act on it the BCC or blind carbon copy field is for recipients whom you want to read your email and possibly act on it but you want to keep the recipients a secret the recipients will not be able to see who else received the email BCC is the field that protects privacy...