Yahoo Groups users. WARNING!

Hi I got this mail from one of my yahoo groups I am a member of. I thought I'd post the letter here too so that anyone who is interested of this can know.

The letter:

This was sent to me by one of the other Yahoo Groups I belong to.
Very sneaky of Yahoo. My apologies if this offends anyone, but thought it was important to spread the word.

> From another group:
>
> For member of Yahoo Groups, this is important... 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.

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". 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 screen. Be careful, because on that page there is a "Cancel Opt-out" button that, if clicked, will *undo* the opt-out.

BUT note that they add at the end of the Opt-Out section :
"Note: This opt-out applies to a specific browser rather than a specific user. Therefore you will have to opt-out separately from each computer or browser that you use."

Feel free to forward this to other groups.

Yahoo Groups users. WARNING!

Hi I got this mail from one of my yahoo groups I am a member of. I thought I'd post the letter here too so that anyone who is interested of this can know.

The letter:

This was sent to me by one of the other Yahoo Groups I belong to.
Very sneaky of Yahoo. My apologies if this offends anyone, but thought it was important to spread the word.

> From another group:
>
> For member of Yahoo Groups, this is important... 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.

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". 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 screen. Be careful, because on that page there is a "Cancel Opt-out" button that, if clicked, will *undo* the opt-out.

BUT note that they add at the end of the Opt-Out section :
"Note: This opt-out applies to a specific browser rather than a specific user. Therefore you will have to opt-out separately from each computer or browser that you use."

Feel free to forward this to other groups.