How to Keep Personal Emails Private

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By eHow Contributing Writer

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Keeping your personal emails personal need not be a chore. Follow these steps to secure your information and keep your emails from prying eyes.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Step 1

Use a glare reduction screen cover. Screen covers not only reduce glare, but create a black surface across your computer's monitor if viewed from a distance or from behind.
Step 2

Use a personal display or video eyeglasses like those designed by Lumus (see our Resources link). Personal displays and video eyeglasses provide users with optimum security by placing your computer screen right in front of your eyes.
Step 3

Encrypt your emails with an email encryption software.
Step 4

Clear the web browser's cache, cookies and history after using a public computer to view personal email through web-based email providers such as Yahoo! Mail, Gmail or Hotmail.
Step 5

Send and receive personal e-mails at home rather than at work as many companies now record or save emails for future review or for virtual paper trail record keeping purposes. Also, given the increase in remote security reviews (i.e. business IT departments watching employee actions by logging onto employee computers while in use), it is unwise to ever read personal email at work as using "company time" for personal business can result in coachings or a pink slip. Inappropriate subject matter of an illegal or life threatening nature (such as discussions of harming people or children or sharing information on buying or selling drugs or guns), almost always leads to an immediate visit to Human Resources or armed guard removal from company premises into the custody of police.

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