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...AOL??s new terms, affecting anyone who downloaded AIM after Feb. 4, 2004 as well as anyone planning to update the program in the future, explain that, “by posting content on an AIM Product, you grant AOL, its parent, affiliates, subsidiaries, assigns, agents and licensees the irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right to reproduce, display, perform, distribute, adapt and promote this content in any medium. You waive any right to privacy.” Frightening words, indeed...
...been known that e-mail is not the best forum to divulge one’s most dubious thoughts. Any prying person can read them, and they remain within the wilds of the Internet long after they’re deleted from any inbox. But what if, somewhere in AOL??s bottomless online file cabinet, sits every instant message interaction, exposing any deviance or debauchery? The mind runs wild with unsettling prospects...
These are (we hope) exaggerations. AOL??s new policies are particularly alarming in terms of privacy concerns; but the overarching concern has more to do with the undefined legal nature of EULAs than it does with AIM-specific worries of confidentiality...
...AOL??s terms of service are written by lawyers being paid by AOL, accountable to AOL executives. Apart from the (relatively weak) possibility that this particular contract wouldn’t hold up to judicial scrutiny because it wasn’t displayed in a sufficiently prominent place or because it violates in some technical way an obscure subsection of an obscure decades-old law, there is no recourse against any decision AOL makes to exercise the rights they’ve granted themselves. After all, you agreed to give AOL these rights in exchange...
...first gave a crash course in messaging to IM newbie Gabriella Gruder-Poni. Amidst audience protests that “this is against the rules,” Chu vocally prompted Gruder-Poni to “press send.” Finally signed on to AOL??s Instant Messenger service, the two stared intently at their laptop screens and began discussing Elizabeth Bishop?...