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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