• TechCrunch, Tuesday, June 1, 2010 1:28 PM

Clearly not content to let Google and Facebook take all the heat over privacy infringements, Yahoo plans to augment its status update and social aggregation features so users can more easily follow other users. Presently, to view status updates for other Yahoo Mail users, one has to have a "mutual follow," meaning both people have agreed to be "friends." Once Yahoo makes the switch, it will no longer require the so-called "mutual follow" for one user to follow another.

"So, like on Twitter, users can follow whomever they choose," explained TechCrunch. Still, "The PR fiascoes that have hit both Google (via their Buzz launch) and Facebook (via their most recent privacy changes) aren't lost on Yahoo," TechCrunch insists. "They are taking particular care to explain exactly how changes will affect user privacy right up front, before the changes take effect."

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