I believe that Google also has the same policies as Yahoo.
This is news? Most Internet savvy folks have known this for years. Old news.
WND is a joke.
There is also the question of how long emails and other transmissions over Yahoo or similar services is retained. I actually stuck with Yahoo rather than considering gmail because I read a couple of years back that Yahoo purges old communications after a few years, but Google retains it indefinitely, including search history.
Don’t know if that is still correct.
Just Yahoo and Google? I wonder about Facebook. Any time my brother and I start bitching about Obummer, we get mysteriously cut off...or am I just paranoid.
Almost every email you send from any web service, or from an application on your computer (outlook, eudora, agent, etc.) includes the originating IP in the header.
I have used Excite.com as my home page for years … never had a problem. Of course that is only my portal to the Internet, I avoid Google and Yahoo as much as possible.
Doesn’t matter. Anyone who believes anything you do on your computer is even remotely private is a fool.
Yahoo and Google are not allowed on my computers PERIOD! I avoid them, I check my registry weekly to make sure nothing is there. I use their email once in a while as a temporary email. Always hide my IP and use a fake name.
I appreciate that Yahoo puts the originating IP address in the emails.
I’ve saved a lot of time, by not talking to people after doing a WHOIS on IP addresses only to learn that the email came from Africa.
[[That means U.S. citizens’ tax dollars are being used by federal agencies to pay for information gathered in Yahoo’s spying.]]
Golly- I wonder, if htis is true, when the mainstream media will get around to pulling hteir hair out by the roots as they scream about Obama invading citizen’s privacy? I’m bettign it will be.... never?
They search for certain key words and then keep tabs on you.
The gov’t is going to REAL bored with my email.
The posted topic was about search engines, so here’s a contribution.
Follow the “scraper” link.
If you don’t want your ISP to see your search keywords, follow the “no snooping” link on the “scraper” page.
http://www.ixquick.com/
Go to your settings and enable Secure Socket Layer for privacy between your machine and the search engine (but no privacy between your machine and the sites you access after that, unless you use a loyal anonymous proxy service with SSL). ...might have to turn cookies on momentarily in order to enable Secure Socket Layer.
On the controversy regarding e-mail services, one way to have a little privacy is to use an e-mail service operated by a stubborn privacy activist. A way to assure much privacy for e-mail would be to use an out-of-country e-mail service and strong encryption for messages (check laws without listening to television fiends).
...depends on how much privacy you want and how much you want to bother with it. The best way to have your privacy respected is to recruit many others to let Congress know about it for as long as it takes. Tougher privacy laws wouldn’t be the end all, be all, but those would help.
Acting as a proxy for U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies. What happen to Echelon for snooping??.
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It is PROBABLY wider than just email that they spy on. Probably Yahoo Messenger, maybe even the free voice chat, kinda like Skype, too. And their picture service - isn’t that Flickr? or Yahoo 360?