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Microsoft opts Passport holders into spam hell | |
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| Time: 15:45 EST/20:45 GMT | News Source: The Register | Posted By: Alex Harris | ||
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Emboldened by user 'apathy' to Yahoo!'s privacy changes in April, Microsoft has followed suit. It has now co-opted existing Passport users to share their email addresses and other registration information with third parties, Register readers report. Three new checkboxes have appeared on the registration page, with "Share my email address" and "Share my other registration information" ticked by default. The policy change doesn't apply to new sign-ups. Or at least, it didn't when we tried to this morning: all three fields are unchecked by default. The "my other registration information" discloses Birth Date, Country/Region, "Prefecture" (an odd way of describing "District"), Gender, Accessibility, Time Zone and Occupation to .NET participants. | ||
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| #1 By 2332 (129.21.145.80) at 5/17/2002 4:47:43 PM |
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My hotmail account had none of those checked.
Strange. |
| #2 By 135 (208.50.201.48) at 5/17/2002 6:00:22 PM |
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#3 - They aren't the only party. Every website on the internet has their own authentication system.
BTW, I checked my passport and those options are available, but only one 'share my other information' was checked. All that it had of my information was state, country and zip code. My hotmail passport did have the email thing checked on. Ohwell, I filter out all the hotmail email I get anyway... only keep it as a place to receive spam. :) |
| #3 By 116 (24.243.214.180) at 5/17/2002 6:29:52 PM |
| This is a non issue for me. When I log in with passport to a website using passport I WANT to provide this information to them. The only time I log into website utilizing passport is to buy something. And by providing them with this information it saves me time filling out all of my contact/cc info. This is a good thing. To me this is a non issue. |
| #4 By 2332 (129.21.145.80) at 5/18/2002 5:15:14 PM |
| #11 - I've been signed up for passport for a long, long time... and I've never gotten any spam on the hotmail account I specify for my passport account. (Or is it the other way around... eh.) |
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