Read Receipts

A read receipt, or return receipt, is a notification, indicative of seen status, returned to the sender of a message once the receiver has opened said message. This software is nowadays used in messaging apps and SMS/MMS, but originally began with email tracking software. Email tracking technology was originally limited to monitoring delivery status before the introduction of seen-status tracking. Depending on the platform used and method that receipts are fetched, other robust forms of data points can be obtained using more modern code that track your IP address. Beyond the status of whether the message has been seen by the receiver, the notification returned to the sender may include embedded information like reception time, the time that the message has been opened, and location data indicating the receiver’s continent, country, state, city, or even rough coordinates within a multi-square-mile radius of where the message was opened.