Yahoo is invading your privacy? How do you feel about this?

[Firegoblin]

Please read entire question or YOU will be losing out:

The are using web beacons to track everything you do! You know that spam that you are getting? It is from yahoo itself! The worse thing of all is that Yahoo automatically opted you in to their tracking system. Go to this link under and make sure you are logged in to opt out: http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/o...targeting/

Furthermore, you have been opted in automatically to Yahoo! Pulse. If you have a Yahoo email account, then you automatically have a Yahoo! Pulse. Did you know that anyone who has your yahoo email address (with or without your permission) will see everything you post and everything you do from Yahoo Questions to Yahoo News. They can even see when you update Facebook! How do you feel about this? You have to manually opt out by unchecking the share in your Yahoo! Pulse. Just think about this, everyone you have ever emailed or who has your yahoo email address (boss, coworkers, professors) can see what you are doing. I thought I would post to share the news and see what others think about this as well.
Why would Yahoo make it SO difficult to opt out. They purposely hid the links. It took me 15 minutes to opt out of just sharing and disclosing information. You have to click no to over 50 different resources it is sharing with!
Furthermore, the EULA I agreed to was 7 years ago. Most yahoo users do not know about this.
Wow, there are a lot of self-righteous folks online today.

[ǝƃɐʞǝpuɐd]

You're using Yahoo's service and accepting their EULA, so really it's your fault if you don't like what's happening. I personally don't care.

[erewigoagin]

I may be a little bit cynical but having reached 68 I really thought that most people already realized that privacy died some years ago. George Orwell wrote a brilliant novel which painted a picture of a future society 1984. The catch phrase of the government was Big Brother is Watching You. Google recently has had claims against it that during it's compilation of Google Maps and Google Earth it has gathered info on private wireless networks throughout the world. Anything you post on Yahoo even if private can be found on numerous other sites. If you or anyone else posts on ANY website anything they do not wish the world to share forever and a day they have no one else to blame but themselves.

[m3120]

i am not going to insult any ones intelligence (or provide info to third party (gov.) browser searches) by pasting the legal information so check out Facebooks privacy policy (PP) via link below. i want anyone reading this post to read all of section 2, 4, and the "Limitations on removal" paragraph in section 7. additionally, to wrap up this collage of legal information, read "To respond to legal requests and prevent harm" as the last title under section 6.

let me summarize it for you, but hopefully you can read and infer for yourself. section 2 in PP entitles FB to gather information you or your friends post on FB. this could be anything from your profile information to pictures, videos, posts, events, poking, statuses, relationships, pages, applications (platforms), ip address, browser info and location, type of computer (or phone), and pages you visit. lets also not forget that it gathers any information yours friends put on FB about you.

before moving onto sect. 4, note that platforms (indp. of FB) and ads (even w/o clicking on them) can gather any information on you. however FB put in legal statement restrictions to prevent limitless information absorbing under penalty of losing partnership (this doesn't stop them however once the deed is done)

section 4, at the beginning allows websites you visit or applications your run to access your general Information. i bet the average (or below average (but aren't they all?)) FB user doesn't know this. intended or unintended information is being sent out to every website and application in existence regarding (or without regard to?) the users.

now sect. 7 and then i have something that will blow your top off in sect. 6. "Limitations on Removal" clause allows FB to "retain certain information to prevent identity theft and other misconduct" after the request for account deletion. but isn't that ambiguous? any information you put on FB can deter indentity theft like a freaking barcode! this allows FB to store any info indefinitely. but let us not forget that FB is greedy and is mutually partnered with ad campaigns and platform designers. FB subtly included a clause at the end of 7 that allows them to retain any info they have gathered about the user, this not only, but websites that already have your general information, LIKE YAHOO!!

now for the section 7 center ring, keeping in mind all the powers listed previously. FB although american born feels like it has an obligation to other national powers. i quote: "We may disclose information pursuant to subpoenas, court orders, or other requests (including criminal and civil matters)...This may include respecting requests from jurisdictions outside of the United States where we have a good faith belief that the response is required by law under the local laws in that jurisdiction, apply to users from that jurisdiction, and are consistent with generally accepted international standards. This may include sharing information with other companies, lawyers, courts or other government entities." So those of us with citizenship can have FB unknowingly disclose their information to foreign entities at their own discretion.

i have presented the facts. but what harmfull things have/will happen/ed under FB legal PP jurisdiction? wider access to general information by stalkers, social engineering malware/spyware/viruses, direct lines of investigation by foreign powers (or any entity FB deems as necessary to have your personal information *cough* (blackmail or personal information bidding?))

Sorry for going a little beyond the scope of the question.