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Immersion Lets You Map Your Email Metadata & See What the Feds Can Learn About You

For consumers who are curious just what the government looks at when tapping into private email conversations, MIT researchers have created Immersion. If you give it permission, the tool will look at the metadata of your emails and create a map of patterns. It's the same data the government is able to access. These patterns show your digital relationships to different people in an interactive graphic with lots of dots and circles which represent your email exchanges. 

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