Yahoo Mail More Invasive

I have a couple of Yahoo Mail accounts that I use when corresponding with unknowns, that is people who may or may not be trustworthy.

Noticed a recent change under privacy:

Quote:

Communication Products This policy describes our current privacy practices for the Oath Communications brands, websites, features, products, apps, software and other services (“Communications Services”). All information collected, provided to Oath or stored in your Oath Account will be treated, used and protected in accordance with the Oath Privacy Policy. This information may change as Oath revises these Communications Services by adding or removing features or using different service providers. Some Communications Service features are only available if you are a registered user. This page describes specific privacy practices with respect to Yahoo Address Book, Yahoo Calendar, Yahoo Groups, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger or other instant messaging services and Yahoo Notepad. Information Collection and Use Practices - General Oath’s systems may analyze and store all communications content, including email content from incoming and outgoing mail, as well as incoming and outgoing messages to messaging apps. We also may analyze and store all other content and other information you provide when you use our Communications Services. This can include information within or about the content you provide, such as photos, attachments and other communications Our systems may analyze all communications content (such as Mail, Groups, Calendar, Address and Messenger content including instant messages and SMS messages) for the purposes outlined in our main Privacy Policy page. This analysis may occur on all communications content as it is sent, received, and when it is stored, including content from services synced with your account. For example, in certain use cases, we run automated algorithms on commercial communications to create generic templates of such documents (e.g., using common language to identify the elements of an airline receipt). These templates do not include the recipient’s personal data. Oath employees may review the templates to improve our services and our personalization of your experience. We may also manually review certain communications to improve our masking template capabilities, develop tools to assist the automated scanning process, improve segmentation and other automated functions and create generic templates of such documents (e.g., using common language to identify the elements of an airline receipt). Our anti-spam team may review messages flagged as “spam” or “not spam” to improve our anti-spam defenses.

IOW they are making free and loose with eMail and message contents. Have been considering closing these accounts for some time, this may be the straw!

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