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AOL Changing IM Terms of Service

Posted by Zonk on from the at-least-they're-trying dept.

gpmac writes "AOL has responded to the recent slashdot attention. America Online Inc. plans to make three small but significant modifications to the terms of service for its AIM instant messaging product to head off a firestorm of privacy-related criticisms. The tweaks to the terms of service will be made in the section titled "Content You Post" and will explicitly exclude user-to-user chat sessions from the privacy rights an AIM user gives up to AOL."

2 of 229 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Blag by tomhudson · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    whoever still uses instant pestering doesn't deserve any rights.
    No, it's "whoever uses AO-Hell doesn't deserve any rights".

    This keeps on, everyone's going to start running their own private chat servers instead of using the "big boys". Fuck 'em.

    [tt].

  2. Ditch them anyway - untrustworthy by northwind · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I am canceling my use of AIM (through GAIM of course) anyway. It is almost certain that when this storm is over they make gradual changes to cancel user rights again.
    Once on the slippery slope - always......