I was using my GMail today and was surprised to see a little link that read “Last account activity: 1 minute ago at this IP (74.101.6.15). Details.” If you click on Details, it brings up a popup with the latest activity on your account–who accessed your email last, and from where:

Activity on this account: This feature provides information about the last activity on this mail account and any concurrent activity.

GMail now tells you with timestamps (a) what kind of thing (browser, IMAP client, etc) accessed your email (b) when it happened, and (c) what the IP address was. The only thing lacking is a log of what content precisely was downloaded. So finally Google has solved the “is my significant other spying on me” or “do my parents secretly read my email” questions.

This entry was posted on Friday, October 30th, 2009 at 11:48 pm and is tagged with mail account, concurrent activity, gmail, google, security feature, ip address, parents. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback.

One Response to “New GMail Security Feature”

1. Goran Aničić says:

   11/1/2009 at 4:05 pm

   This is great function in online real time security.

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