Privacy


Opt out of unsolicited credit offers

Posted by peter on 2006-12-08 Also filed under General and Knowledge

According to the FTC’s page on deterring ID theft, you can opt out of receiving prescreened credit offers via postal mail by calling 1-888-5-OPTOUT (1-888-567-8688). All three of the nationwide consumer reporting companies use this number to let you opt out of receiving credit offers based on their lists. The FTC site notes that […]

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Opt out of Yahoo! Web Beacons

Posted by peter on 2006-11-13 Also filed under General and Security

Yahoo! and some of it’s “partners”, such as AltaVista use what Yahoo! calls “Web Beacons”, more commonly known as Web bugs. On it’s privacy page about “Web Beacons”, Yahoo! provides a link for you to Opt-out of having Yahoo! use this information for their research. This of course does not stop the web […]

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