Hotmail Email Service Posts Users� Personal Information
Hotmail, a free e-mail service, has posted users� e-mail addresses, cities, and states to Infospace, a Internet white pages directory. The combination of Hotmail user information with the Infospace directory creates privacy risks, as the Infospace already directory contains individuals� addresses and phone numbers. Users of the Hotmail service must "opt-out" of this information sharing.Technology: Hotmail's subscriber information shared with public Internet directory, Nandotimes (AP), March 6, 2001.
