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AOL To Modify AIM Terms of Service

Via /., AOL To Modify AIM Terms of Service:

The tweaks to the terms of service will be made in the section titled "Content You Post" and will explicitly exclude user-to-user chat sessions from the privacy rights an AIM user gives up to AOL.

"We're not making any policy changes. We're making some linguistic changes to clarify certain things and explain it a little better to our users," AOL spokesperson Andrew Weinstein told eWEEK.com.

The modifications will use similar language from the AIM privacy policy to "make it clear that AOL does not read private user-to-user communications," Weinstein said.

Good for them.

Over the last weekend, AOL representatives moved to quell public criticism of the terms of service after the issue was first flagged on Weblogs and discussion forums.

But, the company's damage-control moves did not sit will with legal experts, who argued that AOL's stance that user-to-user IM communications were exempt did not match the language in the terms of service.

Yep.

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