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[j2harman]

¥ahoo¹s ŒOpt-Out¹ Angers Users
In April of 2002, Yahoo automatically began changing their users account
preferences without getting their consent. They were changed to imply
that the user wanted to receive advertising solicitations through spam,
snail mail and telephone. They then told their users via email what had
been done and that they had 60 days to change their settings from ŒYES¹
to ŒNO¹. Yahoo¹s action was estimated to have a widespread, detrimental
effect on all electronic sales and services due to increasing privacy
concerns. Legal experts say that Yahoo may be up for a class-action
lawsuit even though the reserve the rights to change their users
references at anytime. Attorney Edward Hayes says, "It seems if someone
acts in reliance on a privacy, which attracted business for the profit
of Yahoo, they should be able to hold Yahoo responsible to that policy."
A basic principle of privacy is that personal information cannot be used
for another purpose without permission of users. Therefore Yahoo should
have asked their users before changing their preferences.

[Katie Lehman]

Post by j2harman
¥ahoo¹s ŒOpt-Out¹ Angers Users
In April of 2002, Yahoo automatically began changing their users account
preferences without getting their consent. They were changed to imply
that the user wanted to receive advertising solicitations through spam,
snail mail and telephone. They then told their users via email what had
been done and that they had 60 days to change their settings from ŒYES¹
to ŒNO¹. Yahoo¹s action was estimated to have a widespread, detrimental
effect on all electronic sales and services due to increasing privacy
concerns. Legal experts say that Yahoo may be up for a class-action
lawsuit even though the reserve the rights to change their users
references at anytime. Attorney Edward Hayes says, "It seems if someone
acts in reliance on a privacy, which attracted business for the profit
of Yahoo, they should be able to hold Yahoo responsible to that policy."
A basic principle of privacy is that personal information cannot be used
for another purpose without permission of users. Therefore Yahoo should
have asked their users before changing their preferences.

Hey Jess, it's katie!! Stupid Yahoo!! No one wants junk mail and spam!
good thing i don't have a yahoo account, otherwise i';d be mad!! You're
right, they should't be able to do that!
Katie.

[Ida Balo]

Post by j2harman
¥ahoo¹s ŒOpt-Out¹ Angers Users
In April of 2002, Yahoo automatically began changing their users account
preferences without getting their consent. They were changed to imply
that the user wanted to receive advertising solicitations through spam,
snail mail and telephone. They then told their users via email what had
been done and that they had 60 days to change their settings from ŒYES¹
to ŒNO¹. Yahoo¹s action was estimated to have a widespread, detrimental
effect on all electronic sales and services due to increasing privacy
concerns. Legal experts say that Yahoo may be up for a class-action
lawsuit even though the reserve the rights to change their users
references at anytime. Attorney Edward Hayes says, "It seems if someone
acts in reliance on a privacy, which attracted business for the profit
of Yahoo, they should be able to hold Yahoo responsible to that policy."
A basic principle of privacy is that personal information cannot be used
for another purpose without permission of users. Therefore Yahoo should
have asked their users before changing their preferences.

I think that Yahoo should have spent more time with their users and get
feed back on what they thought before making any changes. I think due to
their actions they will lose some of their customers and users and now
being in a lawsiut also lose lots of money.