View Full Version : new TOS for AIM means no more privacy for users
robyrob 03-12-2005, 11:27 PM from Slashdot (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/11/2359226):
"AOL has posted new terms of service for AIM, that include the right for AOL to use anything and everything you send through AIM in any way they see fit, without informing you. A sample passage: '...by posting Content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this Content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy.'"
the full Terms of Service agreement:
http://www.aim.com/tos/tos.adp
sure glad I dont use it :)
vienna waits 03-12-2005, 11:34 PM hmmm looks like mine and Crystal's convos about AI might be in the next AOL commercial!
¤I Love Clay Aiken¤ 03-12-2005, 11:37 PM hmmm looks like mine and Crystal's convos about AI might be in the next AOL commercial!
Uh oh!!! Well, atleast itll finally give us our big break.
dawsongirl 03-12-2005, 11:42 PM eh, screw AIM. I like Yahoo much better.
EmoJoe 03-12-2005, 11:52 PM :eek:
AOL/AIM is stupid
I am Roboto 03-13-2005, 12:00 AM AIM sucks, and it gets suckier everyday.
Dutabi84 03-13-2005, 12:16 AM I hope that doesn't tie in with trillian...
G-Force Glockstar 03-13-2005, 12:16 AM :confused:
I'm too tired to really read all of it (the link), I'll do it in the morning.
Brent88 03-13-2005, 12:18 AM AIM sucks, and it gets suckier everyday.
:yeahthat
EmoJoe 03-13-2005, 12:21 AM :confused:
I'm too tired to really read all of it (the link), I'll do it in the morning. I think they're saying AIM now reads your convos
MandieR1980 03-13-2005, 12:57 AM GOOD, I'm sick to death of AIM and all the losers who use it to spam. Yahoo is so much better and I never had that problem with them.
Chad22 03-13-2005, 01:02 AM Thankfully MSN Is My Messenger Preference.
Georgia's on my Mind 03-13-2005, 01:11 AM that sucks
theshark8777 03-13-2005, 01:13 AM Big Brother is watching...
robyrob 03-13-2005, 01:43 AM I hope that doesn't tie in with trillian...
Triillian is just an IM client - all it does it provide the software to connect to AOL's servers and communicate with other AIM users, so anything that you send is fair game.
Basically what this means is that while AOL wouldn't OWN anything that you send (or post on their user forums etc) they have the right to do whatever they see fit with whatever it is.
Most likely they WONT have someone sitting there listening to your conversations - that would be next to impossible with the number of users, but they COULD flag certain words or phrases if they were looking for something specific, or use it to send you targeted advertising, or use excerpts of your conversations for their advertising or something - anonymously of course.
G-Force Glockstar 03-13-2005, 11:01 AM I think they're saying AIM now reads your convos
:eek: Why? :mad:
I'll read it after Church, I gotta go now.
EmoJoe 03-13-2005, 11:22 AM Triillian is just an IM client - all it does it provide the software to connect to AOL's servers and communicate with other AIM users, so anything that you send is fair game.
Basically what this means is that while AOL wouldn't OWN anything that you send (or post on their user forums etc) they have the right to do whatever they see fit with whatever it is.
Most likely they WONT have someone sitting there listening to your conversations - that would be next to impossible with the number of users, but they COULD flag certain words or phrases if they were looking for something specific, or use it to send you targeted advertising, or use excerpts of your conversations for their advertising or something - anonymously of course.Ugh thats really stupid :rolleyes:
MaydayMalonesGirl 03-13-2005, 11:25 AM This isn't really that big of deal to me. It's not like they're going to put your screename on an advertisement or something.
G-Force Glockstar 03-13-2005, 02:16 PM This sucks!
Dutabi84 03-13-2005, 02:21 PM Triillian is just an IM client - all it does it provide the software to connect to AOL's servers and communicate with other AIM users, so anything that you send is fair game.
Basically what this means is that while AOL wouldn't OWN anything that you send (or post on their user forums etc) they have the right to do whatever they see fit with whatever it is.
Most likely they WONT have someone sitting there listening to your conversations - that would be next to impossible with the number of users, but they COULD flag certain words or phrases if they were looking for something specific, or use it to send you targeted advertising, or use excerpts of your conversations for their advertising or something - anonymously of course.
Hmm..that makes sense. I guess I'll have to plot my plans for blowing up the earth elsewhere. :o
AllIWantIsYourClutch 03-13-2005, 03:42 PM Hmm..that makes sense. I guess I'll have to plot my plans for blowing up the earth elsewhere. :o
tradingm o o ses (1:32:16 PM): we must stop discussing our terrorist plots now
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