Breach of Canadian privacy laws. Foreign conglomerates pirating Canadian user personal data.
I just saw this in my rogers email from OATH.
Short summary of the info:
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Oath notes that it has the right to read your emails, instant messages, posts, photos and even look at your message attachments. And it might share that data with parent company Verizon, too. emails related to your banking and financial transactions appear to be equally in the crosshairs of Oath's ad targeting engine. " you will eventually need to agree to the new Terms of Service and Privacy Policy in order to continue to use our services."
When you dig further into Oath's policy
about what it might do with your words, photos, and attachments, the company clarifies that it's utilizing automated systems that help the company with security, research and providing targeted ads -- and that those automated systems should strip out personally identifying information before letting any humans look at your data. But there are no explicit guarantees on that.
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"you will eventually need to agree to the new Terms of Service and Privacy Policy in order to continue to use our services."
I called rogers and an employee was not aware of the issues concerning the invasion of privacy and they told me my options are just opt out and do not click accept on the waiver, change provider or get a lawyer . The rogers employee finally said to send an email to the president of rogers a state my issues.
think twice before hitting that "OK" button
here is the review of the new invasion of privacy policy in an article on Cnet:
https://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-aol-oath-privacy-policy-verizon-emails-messages/
Oath notes that it has the right to read your emails, instant messages, posts, photos and even look at your message attachments. And it might share that data with parent company Verizon, too.
To be clear, Yahoo's previous privacy policy had already stated that Yahoo "analyzes and stores all communications content, including email content," so the company has previously disclosed that it's been able to scan the contents of your emails, at least. (AOL's legacy privacy policy doesn't say anything like that.)
When you dig further into Oath's policy about what it might do with your words, photos, and attachments, the company clarifies that it's utilizing automated systems that help the company with security, research and providing targeted ads --
and that those automated systems should strip out personally identifying information before letting any humans look at your data. But there are no explicit guarantees on that.
Notably, Google used to scan its Gmail messages for better ad targeting, though it stopped the practice in June of 2017.
.....emails related to your banking and financial transactions appear to be equally in the crosshairs of Oath's ad targeting engine.
There appears to be another big change for Yahoo users, too: Oath's previous mutual arbitration clause and class-action waiver has been updated and extended across the company's services to include Yahoo as well. What it means is if you don't like what the company does with your data, you'll have a hard time suing.
