Yahoo Admits it Scan Your Emails and Sells the Data it Reaps Quite a while ago, Gmail and Outlook.com stopped scanning users emails looking for data to sell to advertisers. But Yahoo, after already having 3 billion user accounts hacked in 2013, admits it scans Yahoo Mail users’ emails looking for data to sell. According to a report… Read More »
Yahoo + AOL + Verizon Equals Oath [Better read the new TOS] First, we’re not lawyers and don’t claim to be. We don’t know anymore about law than the next average Joe. But we have been a around a long time and we’ve learned to tell the difference between the elevator and the shaft. Yahoo has long been (seemingly)… Read More »
Yahoo Users Must Waive Class-action Rights—or Stop Using Yahoo Attn: Yahoo User (especially Yahoo Mail users): If you want to continue using Yahoo Mail or any Yahoo service you’re going to have to give up all class-action legal rights. And, if you want to continue to use Yahoo Mail and other Yahoo services, you must agree to a… Read More »
If You Had a Yahoo Account in 2013, You Were Hacked “Sitting down? An epic and historic data breach at Yahoo in August 2013 affected every single customer account that existed at the time, Yahoo parent company Verizon said on Tuesday… ” CNN Money A recent admission by Verizon (new owner of Yahoo and now known as Oath), raises… Read More »