Yahoo is tracking group members

Socialist Resistance no32 | page 21-22

This is scanned newsprint, not web text. The original PDFs carried no text layer at all, so every word here was read off the page by OCR. Expect dropped opening letters, run-together words and wrong characters. There was no contents page to cut the paper up by, so the articles were found from the size of their headlines: a headline may carry its kicker, and where an article ran beside a boxed panel a few lines of the neighbour can appear. The scanned issue is the authority; this text is here so the words can be found at all.

SMASH THE STATE reports: If you belong to ANY Yahoo Groups be aware that Yahoo is now using "WebBeacons" (aka 'web bugs') to track every Yahoo Group user.

It's similar to cookies, but allows Yahoo to record every website and every group you visit, even when you're not connected to Yahoo.

Look at their updated privacy statement at http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy. About half-way down the page, in the section on cookies, you will see a link that says WEB BEACONS. Click on the phrase "Web Beacons". On the page that opens, find a paragraph entitled "Outside the Yahoo Network." use. anyone is listening ..

In that section find a little "Click Here to Opt Out" link that will let you "opt-out" of their snooping. Be careful not to click on the next button shown. It is an "Opt Back In" button that, if clicked, will undo the opt-out.

Note that Yahoo's invasion of your privacy - and UK& IRELAND machine specific. That - is not user-specific. It is

means you will have to opt-out on every computer (and browser) you

Please forward this to your other groups.

You might complain, too, but I'm not sure if