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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. Oh, FFS! by Em+Emalb · · Score: 5, Insightful

    STOP IT WITH THE GODDAMNED "WE'RE GONNA SHARE YOUR ONLINE LIFE" bullshit!

    Seriously. DO NOT WANT.

    Yeah, great, you can "opt out". How about just don't fucking do it in the first place, Yahoo!?

    Christ riding a sheep, this is retarded.

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    1. Re:Oh, FFS! by Em+Emalb · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I don't have a yahoo account.

      The point remains the same. Opt IN not Opt OUT.

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    2. Re:Oh, FFS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I know exactly where you are. Don't worry baby, we'll be together for ever soon.

  2. The right way to do it by phantomfive · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The right way to do it is to leave it off by default. Assuming your primary concern is to protect users' privacy. Which it isn't: they mainly want to bring this new feature (whatever it is) to the majority of people whom they think will like it, without upsetting a (vocal) minority of users who really care about privacy.

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