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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:Nice to see by SteelV · · Score: 0, Troll

    Google indexes to serve ads. AIM tried to lay claim on our IP.

  2. Funny USians by Pac · · Score: 1, Troll

    the term "American" has been adopted to mean "one of the United States of America."

    You can adopt whatever you want. It does not automatically follow that people from other countries in the (North/Central/South) American continent have to follow, agree or refrain from finding you ridiculous...