With so much concern over privacy around the globe, Yahoo! wants to be even more diligent about how we make changes to our services and how we innovate. We know that our business depends almost entirely on the trust of our users. Our users are our most important resource and we work hard every day to ensure that they have the best, most enjoyable and most personally relevant online experience.
Past experience tells us that users value the relevant content we provide, including relevant social content. For nearly two years, users have been sharing their Yahoo! social actions via Yahoo! Updates through Yahoo! Messenger and Connections (mutually acknowledged friendships on Yahoo!). Over the coming weeks, we will add a feature that also allows you to aggregate Updates from your Contacts in Yahoo! Mail viewable on the “What’s New” tab.
But let’s be clear – contact lists from Yahoo! Mail and friends lists from Yahoo! Messenger are private. We don’t ever share that information without a user’s explicit consent. And, private communications are not part of the Yahoo! Updates stream. Yahoo! Updates consist of things you do that are already publicly available or that you’ve published online for everyone to see. These include things like comments on message boards, songs you’ve rated, movies you’ve reviewed, articles you’ve Buzzed, photos you’ve uploaded in Flickr, questions you’ve asked or answered on Yahoo! Answers and other similar activities.
To find out more about these new features, please visit our corporate blog and FAQs on Yahoo! Update settings.
And, as always, we look forward to your feedback.
