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The following message was received on CTC's Right to Ride Yahoo group line
from member, Simon Geller.

Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 12:27 PM
Subject: [CTC-RTR] Warning re Yahoo! groups privacy


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> Yahoo is now using something called "Web Beacons" to track Yahoo
> Group users around the net and see what you're doing and where you
> are going similar to cookies. Yahoo is recording
> every website and every group you visit. Take a look at their updated
> privacy statement: http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy
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> About half-way down the page, in the section on cookies, you will
> see a link that says web beacons. Click on the phrase web beacons.
> That will bring you to a paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo
> Network."
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> In this section you'll see a little "click here to opt out"
> link that will let you "opt-out" of their new method of snooping.
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> Once you have clicked that link, you are exempted. Notice the
> "Success" message on the top of the next page. Be careful because
> on that page there is a "Cancel Opt-out" button that, if clicked,
> will *undo** the opt-out.
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> It seems that this is something individual subscribers will have to do to
protect their
> privacy - list owners can't turn it off for their groups as far as I can
tell, unfortunately.
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> Feel free to forward this to other groups.
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> Simon
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