Privacy Policies Heading Downhill

Posted by michael on Thursday April 11, 2002 @08:00AM from the faster-than-a-speeding-bullet dept.

ipfwadm writes: "There's a good article in the NY Times about various internet companies changing their privacy policies to allow the selling of users' information to marketers. The article mentions Yahoo and how they changed everyone's marketing preferences recently, among other companies (including everyone's favorite, Microsoft)." We already did a story on Yahoo's changes, but this one is notable because Yahoo's former vice president for direct marketing blasts the changed policy. And LorenzoV submitted a story from Wired about TrustE failing to censure Yahoo over their changes. Again.

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A TrustE is still a con! by The+Turd+Report · 2002-04-11 08:04 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Trolls by Anonymous Coward · 2002-04-11 08:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Has anyone noticed that there don't seem to be many trolls around? Browse at -1 for a bit, and you won't see that many. And the ones that are there seem strangely wholesome. Off topic political advocacy rather than child sex stories. What the hell is happening? The great Slashdot blackout hasn't even started yet.