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 |  Subject: Yahoo to Users: Let Us Read Your Emails or -- Goodbye!  Wed 05 Jun 2013, 19:28 | |
| Yahoo to Users: Let Us Read Your Emails or -- Goodbye!
May 30, 2013
NEW YORK - As of June 1, all Yahoo email users are
required to upgrade to the company's newest platform, which allows Yahoo
to scan and analyze every email they write or receive. According to
Yahoo's help page, all users who make the transition agree to let the
company perform "content scanning and analyzing of your communications
content" to target ads, offer products, and perform "abuse protection."
This means any message that Yahoo's algorithms find
disturbing could flag a user as a bully, a threat, or worse. At the same
time, Yahoo can now openly troll through email for personal information
that it can share or hold onto indefinitely. See: http://help.yahoo.com/kb/index?page=content&y=PROD_MAIL_ML&locale=en_US&id=SLN3254
Archived at: Yahoo mail upgrade.
Gay and haven't come out yet? Yahoo knows. Having an
affair? Your spouse may not know — but Yahoo does. Any interests,
ailments or projects you'd rather not share? You're sharing them with
Yahoo, perhaps forever.
The new tracking policy affects more than just Yahoo
account holders. Everyone who corresponds with a Yahoo email account
holder will also have their own message content scanned, analyzed, and
stored by Yahoo, even if they themselves have not agreed to Yahoo's new
terms of service.
"Emailing through Yahoo means surrendering your
privacy, whether it's your own account or your friend's," says
Harvard-trained privacy expert Katherine Albrecht, who is helping to
develop StartMail, an upcoming email service that will not scan its
users' correspondence. "It's time we start paying attention to these
policies, because they're growing more shockingly abusive every day,"
she added.
Where prior versions of Yahoo had tracking policies
buried in the fine print, the company's tracking agenda is now openly
stated in paragraph 2: "When you upgrade you will be accepting our
...Privacy Policy." That is, its anti-privacy policy.
Concerned Yahoo users are invited to check out
StartMail, a completely private email program slated for release this
Fall. Anyone who would like to be a beta tester can visit StartMail (www.StartMail.com) and sign up for the upcoming release.
Rest assured: That information will not be shared with anyone at all.
Especially not Yahoo.
For further details, please contact:
Katherine Albrecht, Ed.D.
U.S. Media Relations
StartMail Private Email // StartPage & Ixquick Private Search
www.StartMail.com // www.StartPage.com // www.Ixquick.com
+1 877-434-3100 ext. 5 [toll free]
+1 973-273-2125 [International]
E.U. Contact Person:
Alex van Eesteren
Sales & Business Development
StartMail Private Email // StartPage & Ixquick Private Search
www.StartMail.com // www.StartPage.com // www.Ixquick.com
+31-30-6971778
source:-
https://www.startpage.com/eng/press/yahoo-reads-your-mails.html | |
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