Monday, March 14th, 2005
Boing Boing: New AIM contract takes your privacy
Boing Boing: New AIM contract takes your privacy
Many readers have written to point out that AOL’s new Terms of Service for AIM “include the right for AOL to use anything and everything you send through AIM in any way they see fit, without informing you. A sample passage: ‘…by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy.’”
Um, so there’s this thing called jabber, it’s like IM where different systems can communicate. All I have to do is flip a switch with my host and start handing out the screenames. I know “everbody uses AIM” but I’m thinking I may not anymore.
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By Laura @ 10:33 am in Internet
