Privacy Policies Heading Downhill

ipfwadm writes: "There's a good article in the NY Times about various internet companies changing their privacy policies to allow the selling of users' information to marketers. The article mentions Yahoo and how they changed everyone's marketing preferences recently, among other companies (including everyone's favorite, Microsoft)." We already did a story on Yahoo's changes, but this one is notable because Yahoo's former vice president for direct marketing blasts the changed policy. And LorenzoV submitted a story from Wired about TrustE failing to censure Yahoo over their changes. Again.

Show Yahoo why they are wrong

[Fastball]

https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user [yahoo.com]

Use the above link to delete your Yahoo account. It's the Internet folks. There are alternatives. There are always alternatives.

No-reg-required link to article on Yahoo

[Seth Finkelstein]

Yahoo has a no-registration-required link to the article, at:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nyt / 0020411/tc_nyt/seeking_profits__internet_companies _alter_privacy_policy [yahoo.com]

Sig: What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org) [sethf.com]

The Fake Middle Initial Trick

[UberOogie]

I stumbled onto this one by accident, when a credit card I had previously had got my middle inital wrong. Then I noticed all this mail coming to me with my wrong middle inital. Then I tried it myself. It is an excellent way to keep track of who is selling your information to whom.