bcolflesh
msg:847132 | 3:30 pm on Oct 2, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Wow - a State Attorney General who actually has some common sense - amazing!
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Brett_Tabke
msg:847133 | 3:36 pm on Oct 2, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Interesting story - can we find a better link somewhere?
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martinibuster
msg:847134 | 3:39 pm on Oct 2, 2003 (gmt 0) |
How about this [asia.reuters.com] one?
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dragonlady7
msg:847135 | 4:57 pm on Oct 2, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Mmmmm... I'm so sorry now I got rid of my Yahoo! account when they did all those skeevy things in '02...
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wkitty42
msg:847136 | 5:19 pm on Oct 2, 2003 (gmt 0) |
dragonlady7, it may still be there and accessible... i still have mine each time i drop by ;)
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allanp73
msg:847137 | 6:31 pm on Oct 2, 2003 (gmt 0) |
I wonder if they will go after Hotmail next, it is really bad for Spam.
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Yidaki
msg:847138 | 6:38 pm on Oct 2, 2003 (gmt 0) |
>It is neither appropriate nor legally permissible for a company Wow, if this will get more public, it will badly hurt Yahoo's image!
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dragonlady7
msg:847139 | 7:08 pm on Oct 2, 2003 (gmt 0) |
>may still be there Nope, I went and deliberately cancelled it, went through a whole big rigamarole to actually kill it and get rid of it.
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Essex_boy
msg:847140 | 9:25 pm on Oct 2, 2003 (gmt 0) |
this is what I like to see! Im going to phone around UK computer magazines in the moring to see if they are aware of it! Ho ho
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richlowe
msg:847141 | 10:04 pm on Oct 2, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Okay, so here's what I understand. Yahoo abused the rights of millions of users by forcing an email (spamming) policy that was illegal and undesired. Presumably Yahoo made millions of dollars (probably tens or hundreds of millions) from this action. Now it gets fined the huge amount of $75,000 and has to change it's policy slightly. And this is a victory for us? Three or four zeros need to be added to that amount before it's a victory. Richard
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BlueSky
msg:847142 | 11:01 pm on Oct 2, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Eliot Spitzer, NY Attorney General, is a ball of fire. I really like him. He has acted in a few cases when the federal government should have but sat on their hands. Most of the times though he works with them going after abuse and corruption. I think he's probably the most active state AG in the U.S.
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sidyadav
msg:847143 | 3:00 am on Oct 3, 2003 (gmt 0) |
but still, If you see its TOS and at the bottom of the Y! Mail page, you'll see this:
Copyright © 2003 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright Policy Terms of Service
NOTICE: We collect personal information on this site.
To learn more about how we use your information, see our Privacy Policy |
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So by Signing up, you are actually agreeing for Yahoo to give out your information to other people. Intresting. Sid
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tedster
msg:847144 | 4:54 am on Oct 3, 2003 (gmt 0) |
| I wonder if they will go after Hotmail next, it is really bad for Spam. |
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Neither Hotmail nor Yahoo is the sole reason those accounts get so much spam. They are both major targets for spammmer "dictionary attacks" and such. Early this year both the Hotmail and Yahoo email databases were cracked wide open and offered for sale on the dark side. Lately the report is that the spam can start flowing within 24 hours of opening a new email account -- but that isn't necessarily Yahoo's doing or MSN's doing. Along with AOL, they are major targets of the spam "professionals". Sources:
Wired [wired.com]
SpamHaus [spamhaus.org]
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martinibuster
msg:847145 | 5:10 am on Oct 3, 2003 (gmt 0) |
| So by Signing up, you are actually agreeing for Yahoo to give out your information to other people. |
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Yes, but you receive the opportunity to opt out of receiving phone calls and email. Yahoo was fined because they did not honor the requests to opt out. | Early this year both the Hotmail and Yahoo email databases were cracked wide open and offered for sale on the dark side. |
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The unsolicited email and telephone calls in question didn't originate from crackers outside of Yahoo. The black hats were Yahoo, that's why Yahoo received the fine. As far as the cost of doing business is concerned $75k is a piddling amount to pay to make Millions. This is a settlement that is obviously in Yahoo's favor. Does anybody recall the recent survey about Yahoo doing a PFI/PPC? Some folks did it, but I declined because the personal information they requested was too invasive.
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rise2it
msg:847146 | 6:08 am on Oct 3, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Woohoo...maybe it'll become a class action lawsuit. We can all spend hours filling out paperwork to get our share of 4 bucks.
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sidyadav
msg:847147 | 6:37 am on Oct 3, 2003 (gmt 0) |
ye , but think of not only Yahoo Mail , as most webmasters use their own mail , but think of Yahoo Messenger, MSN messenger is still good, but Yahoo messenger has 1 good feature that MSN doesn't:
Conference
it allows more than 2 ppl to chat togeather which I think is very handy, and many many many ppl I know who don't own a website but use Y! mail , for just checking and being in contact by other relatives by Mail and they think Internet is great, they don't know/think how they built it, how it works, Yahoo gives out personal info etc. and AFAIK they think Y! Mail is a really handy feature. Hopefully when they sew Yahoo , Yahoo doesn't close down the mail service but only stops giving other people your personal info! Sid
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anallawalla
msg:847148 | 3:45 pm on Oct 3, 2003 (gmt 0) |
Explains why my Yahoo email account got so much Chinese language spam because I said I was in Hong Kong when I signed up.
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