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How to find that a company could not care less about your Privacy?

The trade offs  of the Web and Digital world are well known: Vendors do not charge Consumers for using their software products. Consumers pay by allowing advertisement content on their computers and Smart Phones screens. Vendors such as facebook , Google and many other vendors and service providers collect and analyze personal data.  When it comes to selling the Consumer Private Data  it is a different issue. The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Scandal is an example.  I am surely do not agree with selling Customers Private Data without their explicit permission, however, I am able to understand why some employees or some companies could sell the data. The motivation is earning more money. Not taking enough care of customers Privacy without any benefit is beyond my understanding.  You should not trust any company for protecting your Privacy do it yourself. It is a good practice not to publish private information, if not necessary. Your Private Data i...

Do not ask: why Yahoo! is for sale? ask: why Verizon is acquiring Yahoo!?

According to Bloomberg, Verizon Communication Inc. has emerged as the most likely buyer of Yahoo! Inc . The deal will may be announced in few days. Nobody is surprised that Yahoo! is going to be acquired. It is a strong brand with quite good software products. However, for many years its Business results were not good enough. Yhaoo!'s Search Engine was a leading product until Google dominated the market. Since than Yahoo! replaced its top management and its strategy frequently. It tried to acquire Google and Facebook and Microsoft tried to acquire it on 2008. Yahoo!'s most successful investment was buying 35% of Ali Baba 's stocks on 2005. 40% of its Ali Baba stocks were sold on 2012. Other Yahoo!'s assets Flickr  - an Image hosting and Video hosting website content services such as Yahoo! Finance Tumblr  - microblogging and social networking website Communication services such as Mail, Messenger, Chat, Maps etc.  Why would a Telco co...