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Author:		Raymond Yee
Posted:		5/28/2002; 8:59:01 AM
Topic:		Robert X. Cringley: Microsoft privacy violations
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Robert X. Cringley: Microsoft privacy violations #

I quite enjoy Cringley's "Notes from the field" in Infoworld. From his latest:

Well, despite Yahoo being slammed in this column and many others for altering its spam-filtering settings unbeknownst to users, only to follow up with an e-mail after the fact, a spy reports Microsoft has followed suit with Hotmail. My spy said Team Redmond is now sharing names and other personal information with third parties, even if users said they didn't want that when they signed up. Ironically, this comes from the same company that has sworn up and down that it would not, under any conditions, share or use the personal data it collects from its HailStorm Web services.

Posted by Raymond Yee on 5/28/02; 8:59:54 AM
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