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More Bad News For Yahoo Users<\/h1>\n

In spite of over one billion Yahoo accounts breached, Yahoo bleeding money, and the company in chaos, Verizon is still going to buy Yahoo, although for a few hundred million dollars less than Yahoo orginally wanted.<\/p>\n

If you think your personal data is not valuable, why else would Verizon be paying over $4 billion dollars for a has-been Internet company, with old, aging infrastructure, a management team that doesn’t have a clue, \u00a0and has lost billions of dollars over the last few years?<\/p>\n

The answer is you, and you and you and you – all of you who have Yahoo accounts. You’re internet browsing and buying and emailing habits are worth lots of money.<\/p>\n

As a final thumbing of its corporate nose at the users it has forsaken over the years, Yahoo is selling you out to a company who is buying Yahoo for all the data it has collected about its users.<\/p>\n

But if you think Yahoo sold you out, wait until you see what Verizon’s going to do.<\/p>\n

Here’s an article from the February 24, 2017 edition of Los Angeles Times, written by David Lazarus that will open your eyes, not only about Verizon’s dealings with Yahoo and your user data, but about how much information and Internet user data is worth.<\/p>\n

Read on for an excellent article that just might open your eyes a little wider.<\/p>\n

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Your privacy: Verizon’s takeover of Yahoo is all about user data<\/a><\/h1>\n

By David Lazarus Feb. 24th, 2017<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Verizon Communications and Yahoo have come to terms on the telecom giant\u2019s takeover of the seen-better-days Internet company. Now, millions of Yahoo users have something else to consider: Verizon\u2019s aggressive use of customer information.<\/p>\n

Put simply, if you think Yahoo played fast and loose with people\u2019s privacy, wait until you see what\u2019s in store from the new owner.<\/p>\n

Verizon and Yahoo announced this week that they\u2019d agreed to shave $350 million off Yahoo\u2019s $4.8 billion asking price to reflect huge security breaches that affected the accounts of more than 1 billion<\/em> Yahoo users. Verizon said that, despite Yahoo\u2019s seeming inability to safeguard customer data, \u201cthis acquisition makes strategic sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s why: The more information Verizon can amass about people\u2019s online behavior and activities, the more it can compete with the likes of Google and Facebook in leveraging that info with marketers.<\/p>\n