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Changes to Yahoo's Privacy Policy

1 messages in this thread | Started on 2004-02-11

Changes to Yahoo's Privacy Policy

From: heylari (heylari@excite.com) | Date: 2004-02-11 02:44:33 UTC


YAHOO IS WATCHING YOU!

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.

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.Also notice the ' opt-
out ' feature is computer specific, so you need to Opt-Out on every
computer you might use to access Yahoo Groups. Feel free to forward
this
to other groups.