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CNET
June 20, 2001
Priya Giri knew that privacy was never a guarantee when e-mailing people from work–but she never knew that some instant messaging services also have ways to record seemingly casual conversations.
Giri, an editor at Kmart shopping site BlueLight.com, noticed this firsthand recently during an IM exchange with a friend on Yahoo Messenger. Midway through the conversation, her friend showed her a trick that would let her archive all of her conversations through Yahoo, a feature that troubled her. [Discuss]