Attn: Yahoo User (especially Yahoo Mail users):<\/strong><\/p>\n If you want to continue using Yahoo Mail or any Yahoo service you’re going to have to give up all class-action legal rights.\u00a0 And, if you want to continue to use Yahoo Mail and other Yahoo services, you must agree to a new privacy policy that allows Yahoo\u00a0 to analyze your emails and store them.<\/p>\n In case you’ve forgotten, Yahoo had a data breach that involved most Yahoo email accounts (billions of users were affected) back in 2013 – although the breach was not made public until three years later.\u00a0 Last month (March 2018) a U.S. judge ruled\u00a0 that victims of the massive data breach can sue Yahoo (Verizon) for damages in the United States.<\/p>\n Enter Verizon: Verizon acquired Yahoo in June 2017 and announced they would form a new company (Yahoo+Verizon) called OATH.\u00a0 We haven’t heard much about OATH, but we’ve heard a lot from Verizon.<\/p>\n Verizon is now requiring people who use Yahoo Mail and other Yahoo services to waive their legal rights to any class action lawsuits against Yahoo. In order to keep using Yahoo Mail and other Yahoo services, users must agree to give up class action rights and to settle disputes through arbitration. Verizon also announced new privacy policy that affects all Yahoo Mail users. The new privacy policy allows Verizon to “analyze and store all communications content, including email content from incoming and outgoing mail. This allows us to deliver, personalize and develop relevant features, content, advertising and Services.”<\/em><\/p>\n In order to continue using Yahoo Mail or any other Yahoo service, you must agree to give up your class action legal rights and you must agree to the new privacy policy.<\/p>\n Read more about Yahoo and its new policies here.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yahoo Users Must Waive Class-action Rights\u2014or Stop Using Yahoo Attn: Yahoo User (especially Yahoo Mail users): If you want to continue using Yahoo Mail or any Yahoo service you’re going to have to give up all class-action legal rights.\u00a0 And, if you want to continue to use Yahoo Mail and other Yahoo services, you must agree to a\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1821,1461,1670,1656,1674],"tags":[1863,1134,2349,1653,2348,2347],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14845,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14840\/revisions\/14845"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}