Do you use AIM? You'll want to check this out. (929 hits)
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Submitted by <I'm a Little Teapot....> (View user info) at 2005-03-15 12:18:32 EST
Read this just a minute ago. Amazing what AOL is putting in it's privacy policy. It must be banking on the fact that people don't read crap like that.
I know I don't.
http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/000570.html
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Submitted by Demolocke (user info) at 2005-03-15 19:53:25 EST (#)
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Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2005-03-15 16:06:21 EST (#)
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America Online spokesman Andrew Weinstein, however, maintained that AOL does not monitor, read or review any user-to-user communication through the AIM network, except in response to a valid legal process.
Weinstein told eWEEK.com the clause in question falls under the heading "Content You Post," meaning it only relates to content a user posts in a public area of the AIM service. "If a user posts content in a public area of the service, like a chat room, message board or other public forum, that information may be used by AOL for other purposes," he explained.
One example of this, Weinstein said, may be a user who posts a "Hot or Not" photo and thus allows AIM to post it for other AIM users to vote on. "Another might be taking an excerpt from a message board posting on a current news issue and highlighting it in a different area of the service.
"Such language is standard in almost all similar user agreements, including those from Microsoft [Corp.] and most online news publications. That clause simply lets the user know that content they post in a public area can be seen by other users and can be used by the owner of the site for other purposes," Weinstein added.
"AIM user-to-user communication has been and will remain private," the AOL spokesman declared.
Submitted by Sassmasterr (user info) at 2005-03-15 14:52:27 EST (#)
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that sucks
Submitted by Shay (user info) at 2005-03-15 14:34:22 EST (#)
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Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2005-03-15 12:36:29 (#)
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So you are willingly using a service that gives you no rights when there are other options?
Let me guess, you're American. Where else would people be used to having no privacy rights.
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Let me guess, you are from Canada or England? One of our 'bitches.'
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2005-03-15 13:28:11 EST (#)
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Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2005-03-15 12:36:29 (#)
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So you are willingly using a service that gives you no rights when there are other options?
I don't fucking care, that's why. It's not like I'm posting something important or having some top secret conversation on the thing.
Submitted by congo (user info) at 2005-03-15 12:49:49 EST (#)
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People overreacting to nothing.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/aim.asp
Submitted by Gnome (user info) at 2005-03-15 12:36:29 EST (#)
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So you are willingly using a service that gives you no rights when there are other options?
Let me guess, you're American. Where else would people be used to having no privacy rights.
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2005-03-15 12:28:22 EST (#)
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Good thing I use it for what it's made for: communication.
Submitted by russizm (user info) at 2005-03-15 12:21:06 EST (#)
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The fact is that has been the privacy policy for AIM for over a year now.
The internet media is just catching on.