yahoo!groups primer policy
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Groups Primer Policy
Ahmed Alibrahim
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Yahoo! Groups (groups.yahoo.com)
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Yahoo! Groups Background
• Yahoo! Groups is one of the services powered by Yahoo! It is a communication tool provided by Yahoo! In the cyberspace.
• Yahoo! Groups was first launched in 1998.
• Yahoo Groups! Is a combination of forums and mailing lists, where participants can view messages in a particular group on both their email or the group’s page just like in any Internet forum.
• Some users use Yahoo! Groups as a message-delivering tool in which the group creator is the only person who can send messages to participants.
• Yahoo! Groups are also used as a discussion list where members can send and replay messages to the other group’s members.
• Yahoo Groups is subject to all Yahoo! TOS.
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Why Is It Important to Read Yahoo! Groups TOS
• The TOS tells the user about the
Ownership of contents.
• Who is responsible for the content
• uploaded or transmitted?
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Why Is It Important to Read Yahoo! TOS
• How is the privacy of user protected?
• Is the personal data protected?
• Can the data be published by Yahoo?
• TOS explains Policy about personal
data sharing with the partners and
advertisement targeting
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Privacy
• Personal information of Yahoo! Groups members is not made publicly available
• Access of members personal information are limited only to employees or to be shared with partners
• Yahoo! Partners have the right to share members personal information and reuse them.
• Users not reading the TOS would perceive this breach of their personal lives upon finding about it
• Electronic and physical safeguards are present to protect information
• Member's accounts are not intercepted by Yahoo! for the purpose of security and monitoring
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Contents Ownership
• Information published on Yahoo! Groups is owned by publisher.
• Yahoo! Groups do not claim the ownership of contents published in any of their pages.
• The contents published by users are not controlled by Yahoo! Therefore Yahoo! do not guarantee the credibility or integrity of contents Published on Yahoo! Groups.
• Moreover, Yahoo! Is not responsible for offensive materials Published by members on Yahoo! Groups.
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Cookies
• When Yahoo! Groups users agree to Yahoo! TOS, Yahoo! Send cookies to user’s computer.
• Other Companies advertising on Yahoo! Groups website is also able to send cookies to user’s computers.
• However, other companies and advertising agencies not dealing with Yahoo! Are not able to place cookies on user’s computers.
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Surveillance
• Top contributors of Yahoo
check for use of any explicit
language.
• Explicit words shall be removed
from the site
• Monitoring is done by the contributors and Yahoo employees.
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Children Protection
• Children under the age of 13 are not allowed to use Yahoo! Groups.
• However, They are still able to join Yahoo! Groups if they have there parents to join Yahoo! Family accounts.
• Parents are allowed to control surveillance their children accounts through the Yahoo! Family accounts.
• They can add, review, and/or delete any certain information they want.
• If parents do not agree to collect or use their children information they can delete the whole account.
• They also can make sure that their children’s account has been deleted by visiting Account Deletion page provided by Yahoo!
• Some groups ask for age verification to be able to join the group.
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Account Security
• To join Yahoo! Groups a member should hold an account in Yahoo! which is protected with a username and password.
• Data provided to create a username should be factual, current and complete to join Yahoo! Groups.
• Most people do not provide factual data; get involved in immoral activities with fake identity.
• As a result of that, Termination of account may result on non-integrity of data
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Pornography
• Some users use Yahoo! Groups to publish pornography materials.
• They send pornography photos and adult content videos through Yahoo! Groups.
• In 2001, Yahoo! Groups started to fight the issue by deleting all groups containing adult materials from the search feature and the groups directory.
• Yahoo! Made it very challengeable for users to locate such groups unless the user knows the accurate name of the group.
• To join an adult group an age verification is required by Yahoo!
• Only adults are allowed to join adult content groups.
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References
• Hu, J. (2002) Yahoo buys email list service eGroups in stock deal. Retrieved October 2, 2009 from
http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-email-list-service-eGroups-in-stock-deal/2100-1023_3-242517.html
• Yahoo! Kids Policy. Retrieved October 2, 2009, from http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/kids
• Yahoo! Privacy Policy. Retrieved October 2, 2009, from http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/
• Yahoo! Terms of Service. Retrieved October 4, 2009, from http://info.yahoo.com/legal/us/yahoo/utos/utos-173.html