UNYK . . . Ooops

Dear Friends,

Recently I joined UNYK which is supposed to be an automatically updated adress book and and an easy way to keep track of contacts.  However, friends have brought to my attention that this can also be a powerful resource for spammers to use.  Here is what one friend was told by his computre advisor.

I don't know that I'd trust it. First of all, any updates require that both parties are members, and one of the most valuable things to spammers are verified pairs of e-mail addresses, which this would create by giving someone your address book to cross-reference with everybody else's. They sell all the addresses as valid addresses to the spammers, and charge extra for the pairing, which is used to send an e-mail like, "Don, your friend David Jackson recommended that you look at this, because he's loving it."

I read the privacy statement and it sounds at first like they don't give any information to third parties but I don't understand everything that they are talking about and there may be some loopholes.  Anyway, if you read the privacy policy you will quickly see that the company definitely intends to use your information to target you with advertising whether it is UNYK that sends the actuall advertising or a third party I am not sure but that is their intent.

So I am going to try to get out of UNYK system if I can and I hope that by joining in the first place I don't cause any of you inconvenience.  Thank you.

Brian