YAHOO TO SCAN AND ANALYZE ALL EMAIL AND MESSAGES

Yahoo has decided to scan and analyze all email for both Yahoo users and anyone who emails to and from Yahoo users. If you have left email on Yahoo's server, it will also be scanned. It is YOUR responsibility (they fondly believe) to let your correspondents know of this new privacy breach.

They are going to scan and analyze for information that they can sell to advertisers.

I do not use free email services because I do not believe that anything is really free. If a stranger does give you something there always seems to be a price of some sort sooner or later.

However, Yahoo did tell everyone that they would not invade your emails in this fashion. And Yahoo does not seem to be making much of an effort to let their customers, and people who correspond with their customer, learn about this change.

Frankly, I believe that Yahoo needs to put a notification in every email that the email will be used for data mining. Otherwise, people will assume that they are providing a normal email service.

Yes, I know that Facebook does this kind of data mining and the young people who love Facebook do not care. But everyone knows what Facebook does, as their entire business model is based on taking what you post and selling it to advertisers.

I guess we ARE going to need a US PRIVACY LAW to control what these companies do.

Because I am VERY TIRED of saying that these companies can do these things with people who sign up for the service, or who play the game, but they should NOT be able to data mine information belonging to third parties.