Yahoo and privacy.

[chuckwoww]

I don't know if this is a big deal or not. I got it sent to me and thought I'd pass it along...

 

<Yahoo is now using something called "Web Beacons" to track Yahoo Group users around the net and see what you're doing and where you

are going - similar to cookies. Yahoo is recording every website and every group you visit. Take a look at their updated privacy statement:

 

http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy

 

About half-way down the page, in the section on cookies, you will see a link that says web beacons. Click on the phrase web beacons.

That will bring you to a paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo Network."

 

In this section you'll see a little "click here to opt out" link that will let you "opt-out" of their new method of snooping.

 

Once you have clicked that link, you are exempted. Notice the "Success" message on the top of the next page. Be careful because on

that page there is a "Cancel Opt-out" button that, if clicked, will *undo** the opt-out.>

[Pom Michael]

Send a picture file in Yahoo Messenger and you'll find out that they post a copy of it on the web! What's that about ?

[Khun_Kong]

Pom Michael said:

Send a picture file in Yahoo Messenger and you'll find out that they post a copy of it on the web! What's that about ?

 

WTF!??

 

That sounds like a total invasion, maybe even a DMCA violation.

 

Where on the web do they post these? I want to try this.

[Pom Michael]

Send an Yahoo! Instant Message with an attached file.

[Khun_Kong]

chuckwoww said: Once you have clicked that link, you are exempted. Notice the "Success" message on the top of the next page. Be careful because on that page there is a "Cancel Opt-out" button that, if clicked, will *undo** the opt-out.>

 

Thanks!

 

And, double thanks for the warning about that "Opt back in" button. Easy to hit it if you don't read carefully!

 

Sneaky fucks.