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Warning! Don’t send emails to people’s Yahoo! Mail - it is dangerous

According to an article on MrWeb Yahoo! Is changing its terms and conditions to allow it to read emails sent from people’s Yahoo! Mail accounts, AND they will also and open emails sent to Yahoo! Email addresses WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF THE SENDER!

This is not only outrageous but raises severe security problems for anybody sending messages to people’s Yahoo! Email. You can read more about this problem on the BBC’s website.

July 08, 2011 in Business | Permalink

Tags: ray poynter, Yahoo!

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Hi Graham, as I understand it, if I choose to Google I agree to it looking at what I do. The difference is that if you choose to use Yahoo! Mail not only will it open your emails and use them, it will open my emails to you and use them, without seeking any permission from me.

I suspect that this may well turn out to be illegal in Europe as it is interfering with the mail, in the way that Phorm was judged to be illegal.

Posted by: Ray Poynter | July 09, 2011 at 02:34 PM