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Yahoo Treading Carefully Before Exposing More Private Data

Posted by kdawson on from the can-you-say-buzz dept.

crimeandpunishment writes "Yahoo hopes to turn on a new sharing option without turning off its users. The company is trying to avoid the privacy backlash that has befallen Facebook and Google. It's advising its email account holders, all 280M of them, to review their privacy settings in advance of Yahoo's new features that will share users' online activities and interests with people in their address books, unless they take steps to prevent it."

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  1. GNAA 4 LIFE!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. mod Down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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