Community Chat

[Mz iMac]

Read your emails along with......

"When we logged in to a Yahoo Mail account Friday, we were greeted with the privacy policy you see below (Jason Kint had pointed to the policy earlier on Twitter). In it, Oath notes that it has the right to read your emails, instant messages, posts, photos and even look at your message attachments. And it might share that data with parent company Verizon, too."

Full Article on the Cnet website & look for the article title:

Yahoo and AOL just gave themselves the right to read your emails (again)

[wishmoon]

If you're seeking any sort of privacy, get off the internet. I can't think of where you can even find privacy. Nothing is safe on here.

I don't expect it but anyone who wants to copy what I say in an email is going to be very bored.

[Its Me LuLuBelle2]

@Mz iMac, I, like millions, got the same message. So I'd like advise as who to use for an email provider. My life is pretty boring (thankfully) and emails are innocuous, but I dearly value my privacy. I don't Facebook, tweet, post pictures, etc., etc. What to do?

[charvale]

Direct result of the "net neutrality" changes.

People tried to warn this would be a result, now here it is raising its ugly head.

[Mz iMac]

@Its Me LuLuBelle2

Thunderbird for "family & offline friends" ONLY.

Yahoo & Mail dot com for my junk/scams.

Gmail for message boards , blogs, forums, chat sites & other social sites.

Mailinator when I want to hide.

[Its Me LuLuBelle2]

@ Mz iMac, thank you! The world of technology is moving way too fast for me, and frankly, I'm not a fan.

[Mz iMac]

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@wishmoon wrote:

I can't think of where you can even find privacy. Nothing is safe on here.

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VPN

[skuggles]

In the very early days of email, there was constant admonition to consider it a public bulletin board, and use it for nothing that you would not want the world to know. After all, it was just a code away from being trespassed upon if you thought about it as your intellectual property. Text messaging soon joined the ranks of "public bulletin board"fodder. When did everyone let their guard down and how could they miss this and be so trusting?

[Mz iMac]

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@skuggles wrote:

When did everyone let their guard down and how could they miss this and be so trusting?

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The early days of AOL & Yahoo chat rooms.  Remember "To Catch a Preditor?"

[Its Me LuLuBelle2]

@skuggles, you certainly are right, but I, like millions of others, got comfortable, and therefore complacent, and I guess we thought what we emailed to others was kind of like those letters in our USPS mailbox and personal and private. I sure thought wrong. Shame on me.