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SBC-Yahoo Partnership Cuts User Privacy

Posted by michael on from the yahoo-knows-you're-a-dog dept.

simeonbeta2 writes "The San Francisco Chronicle is running a story about Pac Bell's dsl partnership with Yahoo. Initially touted as a new service, Pac Bell is apparently now mailing existing dsl customers to urge them to install additional client software that will enable 'incredible new features and services'. While SBC's privacy policy is not excessively intrusive, use of the new software is covered by Yahoo's privacy policy, which is just a bit more Orwellian." The story's a little overblown - Yahoo's privacy policy reads that way because they offer financial services and the like, where they may well need financial information from you to provide the service. The reporter needed to investigate this new software DSL users are being asked to install, and find out what sort of user tracking it enables.

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  1. In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Privacy policies change you!

    ~~~

    1. Re:In Soviet Russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      "All Your Soviet Russia Jokes Are Belong To Us "--The RIAA

  2. second post not logged in baby yeah!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i hope i got it!! that would be sweet!

  3. LNUX = 1.28 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thanks to yahoo finance!

  4. nth post? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i would like to dedicate this post to the millions of starving children in Detroit, MI. This is another nth post

  5. I agree with this post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FreeBSD is better than linux.