Yahoo's sneaky new privacy violations: Web Beacons

[Guest guest]

Got this from a member of another Yahoo Group.

" For your information ...

Yahoo is now using something called " Web Beacons " to track Yahoo

Group users around the net and see what you're doing and where you

are going - similar to cookies. Yahoo is recording every website and

every group you visit – theoretically without “personal information”

But if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you. <G>

Take a look at their updated privacy statement:

http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy

About half-way down the page, in the section on cookies, you will

see a link that says web beacons. Click on the phrase web beacons.

http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/beacons/details.html

That will bring you to a paragraph entitled " Outside the Yahoo

Network. " In this section you'll see a little " click here to opt

out " link that will let you " opt-out " of their new method of

snooping.

Once you have clicked that link, you are exempted.

Notice the " Success " message on the top of the next page. BE CAREFUL

because on that page there is a " Cancel Opt-out " button that, if

clicked, will **undo** the opt-out. Tricky little sucker, there. "