Yahoo is new Big Brother
Online privacy became the big issue of our generation especially after the technological trend of being online everywhere and every time. It's quite understandable that every government wants to have all the information it can get about its citizens for political, economical and most importantly safety reasons. Likewise companies want to access information about its customers so that they can know more about their market. And its no different for Yahoo.
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Yahoo Group Users - Attention, I received this information on a discussion list for a master mind group I'm a member of. If you, like millions of others, use Yahoo Groups to connect with clients, classes or other discussion groups, you may want to read this:
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.) Yahoo is recording every website and every group you visit. Take a look at their updated privacy
statement:
1. http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy
2. About half-way down the page, in the section on Cookies, you will see a link that says Web Beacons. Click on the phrase "Web Beacons".
3. That will bring you to a paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo Network". In this section you'll see a little "click here to opt out" link which will let you "opt-out" of their new method of snooping.
4. Once you have clicked that link, you are exempted.[Notice the "Success" message on the top of the next page. Be careful because on that page there is also a "Cancel Opt-out" button which, if clicked, will *undo* the opt-out. It appears after you have hit the opt-out button so is very confusing.
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