Can you track someone’s location by their Gmail account?
Google Inc. A week after unveiling Google Latitude, which enables people to track the exact location of friends or family through their mobile devices, the company today announced that its Gmail software can now show the location of e-mail writers.
Can you track someone’s location by email?
Somebody who wants to track you can do two things, they can either send an email with a read receipt, or they can send an email with an embedded image (sometimes referred to as a bug or beacon). Read receipt requests are included in an email’s meta data (its headers).