IP: Hotmail Addresses Shared With Site

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 18:18:12 -0500
> To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
> From: Jock Gill <jgill () penfield-gill com>
> Subject: Hotmail Addresses Shared With Site
>
> Dave,
>
> Has IP discussed this issue?
>
> http://www.newsday.com/ap/national/ap929.htm
>
> Hotmail Addresses Shared With Site
> by D. IAN HOPPER
> Associated Press Writer
>
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hotmail, the free e-mail service from Microsoft, is
> divulging subscribers' e-mail addresses, cities and states to a public
> Internet directory site that combines the information with telephone numbers
> and home addresses.
>
> Hotmail customers are automatically added to Infospace's Internet White
> Pages directory unless they remove the check from a box in their
> registration form and ''opt out,'' company officials said.
>
> ----------snip
>
> Jock



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