If you’ve been using Yahoo or AOL to avoid Google’s email scanning practices — or if you just plain use those services because you prefer them — there’s news from Oath, the parent company of both, that you’ll want to be aware of. A recent tweak to the company’s privacy policy gives it the right to scan all incoming and outgoing email, for the explicit purpose of delivering “content, advertising, and services.” Oath also reserves the right to share data with its parent company, Verizon (we’ve discussed Verizon’s lack of privacy protection and user-hostile practices before) and notes that it also intends to analyze user interactions with financial institutions in order to provide “products and services of interest to our users.” And the company has extended its mutual arbitration clauses across the entire suite of Yahoo products, thereby ensuring that if you aren’t happy over something Oath does with your data, you won’t be suing them to stop it.

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