Gmail

The era of sending an email to the wrong person may be a thing of the past.

In June, a woman in Monroe, Connecticut had her Gmail and Facebook accounts hijacked by a man who demanded she send him nude photos to get the accounts back. The unnamed victim instead went to the police, who launched an investigation that resulted in Monday’s arrest of 19-year-old John Joaquim III. It’s unclear whether he knew his victim, but the two do live in the same town.

As Gmail users know, the Google webmail service tracks every word you type and read, and then uses the information they gather in targeted advertisements — making for sometimes useful and sometimes eerie invasions of privacy. The folks at Microsoft had some fun with their rival’s snooping in this video spoof about  a “Gmail Man” — a flesh-and-blood mailman who opens and reads your letters before h