Yahoo Changes Privacy Policy
In what has become a trend among profitable large internet companies, Yahoo announced that it is reseting consumer privacy preferences so that they can market their personal information, including selling telephone numbers and e-mail addresses to telemarketers and other marketing firms. Consumers will have 60 days to overturn Yahoo's preferences. There has been widespread protest from consumers regarding this change.Yahoo's Updated Policy.
Yahoo! sneaks in yet more spam, MSNBC, March 29, 2002.
Yahoo's 'Opt-Out' Angers UsersWired News, April 2, 2002.
