does the data begin? the minutite you are on. you are letting the ip company know you are there. the ip knows about us. google knows about us. yahoo knows about us. the e-mail company knows about us. i am going to send an e-mail to the lawn service company. ahern says he never had this kind of detailed information back in his skip tracing days. phone record would say frank called ted at whatever hour. e-mail, frank e-mailed ted this is what he wrote. according to the chip maker intel we send 204 e-mails every minute each one generating raw information about ourself that is are indelible. if we delete things from our account do we delete it? the only delete button you have is on the lap top not on the internet. the internet is forever. of course it s not just e-mails that can last forever. on average every minute at least