Should YAHOO protect the anonymity of its members? Do you trust Yahoo?

Question

Yahoo takes the position that if a court, any court presents them with a subpoena to discover your true identity and any other information they have about you, they will very willingly hand over that information. You can be sued for what you post through any Yahoo medium. It can be as simple as someone who wants to sue you for cussing them out or insulting them here, and they go to some small court and claim damages and have Yahoo supeonaed for that information. Yahoo will gladly give it out and then this person who filed has your name and address and can come to your house. Yahoo can file a simple motion to quash, which takes very little time and very little money, and it would be over and they would have fulfilled their fiduciary responsibility. But they instead choose not to become involved. They have a legal department which states simply that they do not become involved, but will simply answer the subpoena. No defense. No protection. Do you trust Yahoo?

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Answer 1

TRUST NOBODY

Answer 2

"In the US you can thank the Patriot Act and Bush administration for that."

Rich A doesn't have a clue what he is talking about. The Patriot Act wasn't even a pipe dream when the laws governing the internet were put in place. I should know. I've been a partner in an Internet Provider Business since 1995 and this law has been in place since then. *If* Federal or State Authorities desire information for the service users and supply a subpeona to attain that information and if the Service Provider refuses to hand over the information then the government can *and will* pull your license to do business.

Yahoo is no different than AOL, ATT, Verizon, Google or any other organization that provides service to people in regards to the internet. It also is not only the United States whee this can happen. Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany and so on.

So should Yahoo protect the anonymity? No. They can't. Perhaps what should happen is the users of these services shouldn't committ acts that would bring about investigations and subpeona's. You are not safe from any form of prosecution just because you hide behind a fictious name on the internet. There have been thousands upon thousands that thought they were safe only to get the knock on the door by local, state or federal law enforcement officials.

Answer 3

In the US you can thank the Patriot Act and Bush administration for that. They also want to know what books some Americans check out at the public libraries. Another late news item coming your way: National ID Cards! Each American licensed driver will have to physically line-up and get a new ID card (With fingerprint added) within a 5-year period. Of course, the states are fighting this, but mainly because of financing. Yahoo policies are right in line with all the rest, you know, the Republican Party, the party of "as little government interference as possible." What a crock all of this is. Big Brother not only has cameras and snoops in your bedrooms, but now it will extend to the internet, libraries, and now your wallet in form of ID cards. I don't trust any of it in any form whatsoever. It's an invasion of our rights.

Answer 4

Yahoo is just an Internet provided
it will not protect our identity if the law of the country required it
as Yahoo members we shad understand the warning they give as to follow their community guidelines

Answer 5

Yes, I believe that Yahoo! should protect the anonymity of its members. Unfortunately, it does state on one of their forms that they do collect information about users. I don't like the sound of that at all. I imagine, however, that all email providers do the same--they are probably required to--by law.

Answer 6

I'm here answering questions you are here asking them Its the internet of course they sell information

Answer 7

I dont worry about it because I dont get on here and insult people.