[SGVLUG] more recommended stuff.. Frontline Spying on the home front

[Christopher Smith]

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John E. Kreznar wrote:
> "Chris Smith" <cbsmith at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> Honestly, the concern *ought* to be these private database companies
>> having your data in the first place ...
> 
> Does Yahoo have a deal with any of them?  To pass data?  Or not?

For the record, I no longer work for Yahoo, but Yahoo's privacy policies
are very strict. I'm not sure how they could comply with them and still
pass data on to them. In general, for companies like Yahoo, they
customer data is very valuable to them, and they can better monetize it
by selling targeted advertising (like banner ads targetted at a
particular demographic or bidding on search terms) than by giving people
raw access to the data. So they have a strong economic incentive not to
share the data (and companies tend to respond to strong economic
incentives ;-). Yahoo also has privacy policies that prevent certain
personal data from being combined with other personal data. I can't
remember the specific cases, but they tend to involve things like mail
being kept separate from other data.

I don't know if Yahoo is a customer of one of these companies, but I
can't think of any company policies that would be violated by doing so.

- --Chris
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