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  • Surprise surprise: Yahoo and AOL just gave themselves the right to read your emails

    Surprise surprise: Yahoo and AOL just gave themselves the right to read your emails

    ….and yes… Deja Vue. They already gave themselves the right previously. Just making sure you know ..

    😉

    Oath, the media division of Verizon that runs both AOL and Yahoo, is unifying the privacy policy of its two giant legacy Internet brands. 

    That means an updated set of privacy terms and policies for hundreds of millions of users. 
    Now that online privacy has become a major issue post Zuckerberg grilling on Capitol Hill, it is all the more meaningful to realize what you’re seeing…

    When logged in to a Yahoo Mail account Friday users report that 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.

    Emails related to your banking and financial transactions appear to be equally in the crosshairs of Oath’s ad targeting engine.

    There appears to be another big change for Yahoo users, too: Oath’s previous mutual arbitration clause and class-action waiver has been updated and extended across the company’s services to include Yahoo as well

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    One of my biggest problems with TUMBLR has always been its reblogging feature. While I rarely reblog, the times I do, I get as confused about what I am seeing as my readers may be seeing..

    But TUMBLR is going to spice things up.. it’s been redesigned.. 

    But is it better?

    One person’s tweet, quoted in the FORTUNE article, says this:

    the new tumblr reblog design is, EVEN BY TUMBLR REDESIGN STANDARDS, an abomination 

    Strong fighting words for Marissa Mayer.

    Some are already lamenting about the ‘nostalgic charm’ that will be missed with the redesign..

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    This is what greeted me today *(and others)* when I logged into TUMBLR today to update COAL SPEAKER..

    What am I afraid of, the POLTERGEIST Tumblr account wants to know? 
    That’s easy.

    I am afraid of product placement, the ability social networking and corporate sponsorship to merge together thanks to the YAHOO! acquisition of TUMBLR.

    Oh, and one more thing: I am afraid of bad remakes of classic movies. 

    And I was also sort of afraid of the priest from POLTERGEIST 2, but I will wait until the sequel TUMBLR account asks me what I am afraid of in two years to relay more information about that.