OT Yahoo Privacy - lack of

[Klaus Major]

Hi Wilhelm,

> On Tue, 17 Feb 2004  Erik Hansen <erikhans08 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>> 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
> (snip)
> A similar lack of Yahoo privacy is apparent when you try to sign up
> as a new member of a Yahoo group.
> When joining the MC_IDE group (arranged by Richard Gaskin), Yahoo
> confronts you with a couple of required fields that should be 
> absolutely of no concern to them.
> So at first I canceled joining the group, but then thought about 
> feeding them fancy data.
> This worked. Yahoo would not accept an age of 1000 years, but accepted 
> 3 years.
>
> For Yahoo I am now a three-year old CEO of an Aerospace Company.

Well, you are simply a "wunderkind" :-D

> Regards,
>
> Wilhelm Sanke

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
www.major-k.de