OT Yahoo Privacy - lack of

Erik Hansen erikhans08 at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 17 17:29:05 EST 2004


> FYI, This came to my attention, if its
> redundant, my apologies.
> 
> Yahoo is now using something called "Web
> Beacons" to track
> Yahoo Group users around the net and see what
> you're doing
> and where you are going - similar to cookies.
> Take a look at their
> updated privacy statement:
> 
>
http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/pixels/details.html
> 
> About half-way down the page, in the section
> "Outside the Yahoo!
> Network", you'll see a little "click here" link
> that will let you
> "opt-out" of their new method of snooping. I
> strongly recommend
> that you do this.
> 
> Once you have clicked that link, you are opted
> out. Notice the
> "Success" message the top the next page.
> 
> Be careful because on that page there is a
> "Cancel Opt-out"
> button that, if clicked, will *undo* the
> opt-out. Feel free to 
> forward
> this to other groups.


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erik at erikhansen.org    http://www.erikhansen.org

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