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Re: Yahoo is now part of Oath

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Post by syntheticnature »

Animats wrote: post #5

We will share ... your account registration information (such as your user ID, gender, name, email address, postcode & age), your content and advertising interests, content associated with your account, the types of services you use and how you engage with them, cookie and device IDs, IP addresses, geolocation information and activity information from across our websites, apps, software and other services. All of the…

Note that Yahoo's account integration is weak and weird so you may wish to manually delete things linked to your account first.

For example, if you have any Yahoo Groups you own, you should either delete them or transfer ownership first, as Yahoo has basically left that area on life support only and won't even promote a member to a moderator, let alone owner after a poll anymore -- so there are groups basically accumulating spam, with public posts that need to be deleted, or just unable to get new members.

Re: Yahoo is now part of Oath

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Post by mkl »

skummetmaelk wrote: post #6
jtokoph wrote: post #4

Let's say I run company A, and Company B wants to buy all of my user's information but I've already created policies that say I won't share user information with 3rd parties. Could I: 1. Create a subsidiary (Company C) 2. Share info 'internally' with company C 3. Sell Company C to Company B

4. ??? 5. Laugh all the way to the bank.

I don't think you need step 4.

Re: Yahoo is now part of Oath

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Post by soared »

Animats wrote: post #5

We will share ... your account registration information (such as your user ID, gender, name, email address, postcode & age), your content and advertising interests, content associated with your account, the types of services you use and how you engage with them, cookie and device IDs, IP addresses, geolocation information and activity information from across our websites, apps, software and other services. All of the…

A fun test would be to post the data sharing policy of various services/apps and see how often someone posts a comment like this. Someone always posts a comment like this and it always feels, to me, like a knee-jerk reaction.

They've had your data for years (and were previously not only irresponsible but likely shared it with countless other partners), what has changed now?

Just because Yahoo is forthecoming about that they're sharing data, rather than selling it and not telling, thats grounds to close your account? I'm not saying you shouldn't, just odd to always see this comment.

Re: Yahoo is now part of Oath

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Post by terryjsmith »

jtokoph wrote: post #4

Let's say I run company A, and Company B wants to buy all of my user's information but I've already created policies that say I won't share user information with 3rd parties. Could I: 1. Create a subsidiary (Company C) 2. Share info 'internally' with company C 3. Sell Company C to Company B

Technically, of course you can, but practically, if someone sued, you would probably have a hard time convincing others that you are complying with your own policy. It's probably easier to just to change your ToS/privacy policy.

Re: Yahoo is now part of Oath

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Post by DannyBee »

jtokoph wrote: post #4

Let's say I run company A, and Company B wants to buy all of my user's information but I've already created policies that say I won't share user information with 3rd parties. Could I: 1. Create a subsidiary (Company C) 2. Share info 'internally' with company C 3. Sell Company C to Company B

In what sense are you asking if you "Can" do it.

The FTC is fairly broadly empowered to stop deceptive practices, and most of the standards there are about what reasonable users would expect.

So you may be able to work around a contract implicit or explicit, but in practice it's unlikely you would get away with it.

Plus if you said this to a judge they'd laugh at you. They are not (and should not be) judging automatons.

Re: Yahoo is now part of Oath

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Post by xweb »

Animats wrote: post #5

We will share ... your account registration information (such as your user ID, gender, name, email address, postcode & age), your content and advertising interests, content associated with your account, the types of services you use and how you engage with them, cookie and device IDs, IP addresses, geolocation information and activity information from across our websites, apps, software and other services. All of the…

Thank you for this link. Worked well and quickly. I haven't maintained my yahoo account for years, it's good to actually get rid of it.

Re: Yahoo is now part of Oath

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Post by carussell »

jtokoph wrote: post #4

Let's say I run company A, and Company B wants to buy all of my user's information but I've already created policies that say I won't share user information with 3rd parties. Could I: 1. Create a subsidiary (Company C) 2. Share info 'internally' with company C 3. Sell Company C to Company B

Sometimes programmers' minds get infected with the idea that the whole world, especially courts and regulatory agencies, are just little virtual machines that will dutifully execute based on whatever steps you lay out at the beginning. They're not. Machines can't call bullshit on you, but people will.

Re: Yahoo is now part of Oath

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Post by mpg515 »

Q: Why am I receiving this notice? A: We would like to inform you in advance that, as of 18 September 2017, Yahoo and Oath plan to share some user information within the Verizon family of companies which will enable us to integrate our business, allowing us to coordinate more and improve your experiences.

Hate to break it to you, but everyone has already shared Yahoo's user information

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