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What is SBC's Privacy Policy?

"To better server our customers" rarely means that it is in the customers best interest. So SBC customers be forewarned the company is serving you as it changes its privacy policy to allow sharing of customer information with SBC's family of companies. The action was taken according to SBC to clarify the sharing of information with affiliate companies, but nothing in the stated policy said that information would be shared.

Privacy tinkering by SBC, San Francisco Chronicle, September 26, 2004