Do yahoo groups have the right to demand more personal info beyond the profiles?

Question

I was investigating a yahoo group after a friend told me they made unusal requests when she joined. They demanded a profile, no problem there , I do that myself. However they wanted a picture , where you lived, all education information..everything about you. Seemed to me to be against yahoo rules. I gave them a profile and still they wanted more envasive info, felt nasty and rude to me, what do you think ...is there a line that should not be crossed??

Answer 1

some group owners asks those things to be on profiles, but for privacy issues not sure who'd go so far as to add all that personal info just to join a group.  I certainly wouldn't.

yes, an owner can make that a rule and deny membership if a profile is not filled out- not a TOS violation (on a side note, it's a rather stupid request since I can enter any old info, doesn't mean it's at all true) some owners say it's TOS to have a profile completely filled out- but straight from a yahoo Rep: http://messages.groups.yahoo.com/Groups/...

no, yahoo does not demand a profile to be completed in order to join groups, in fact, to be a memebr of a group Yahoo doesn't even force you to have a yahoo account. you can join as a e-mail only member. yahoo also allows profiles to be public or not (they used to anyway) and profiles aren't even really related to groups at all nor is that why profiles are there to begin with.

join such groups but be leary of adding any personal info to any public profile- you're asking for nothing but ID theft and stalkers

Answer 2

I wouldn't bother with the group. Reason being is that you don't want to give out too much info that you are not comfortable with. Remember you do have a choice on how much info you decide to give out to the public.