The American telecom giant AT&T… has rewritten its privacy policy recently, and it’s a condition for service to agree on this updated policy!
The new policy says that the customers data stored in AT&T databases doesn’t belong to the customers any more!!.. it belongs to AT&T!
Came in the updated policy that AT&T (not customers) owns customers’ confidential information and can use it “to protect its legitimate business interests, safeguard others, or respond to legal process” !!
The policy also states that AT&T will track the “viewing habits” of customers of its new video service…!! and BTW, the cable and satellite providers are prohibited from doing that in the U.S.!!
For more on that press here
Well, I think that this came out as a result of the “phone-tapping scandal” we all know about in the U.S.
AT&T is trying to “legalise” what it did already!
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