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New ATT/DirecTV privacy policy is cause for concern

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Just tried to log into my iPhone app and was hit with the insidious new agreement policy.
Read this to learn more:

AT&T making it even harder for you to protect your privacy - LA Times

 

"In completing his company's $49-billion acquisition of DirecTV last month, AT&T Chief Executive Randall Stephenson said it was "all about giving customers more choices."

He meant entertainment and service choices, but he could just as easily have been referring to the myriad of decisions customers will encounter if they seek to protect their privacy.

Instead of using the DirecTV deal as an opportunity to simplify its privacy policy, AT&T has created a more challenging process for opting out of marketing pitches from the company and its partners and for escaping AT&T's watchful gaze as you traverse the Internet."

I spent much time years ago opting out, and now we now have to jump through even more insane hurdles to try and keep our privacy from DirecTV and ATT. Everything was apparently negated in the merger.


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