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В кластер входят документы о неправомерном использовании персональных данных и нарушении приватности пользователей сервисов QIP и Mblogi.
Общие признаки: мессенджер QIP, несанкционированная публикация статусов, нарушение конфиденциальности данных, автоматическое создание блогов
Группа выше: Нарушения приватности конкретными продуктами
Смысл: The text reports a privacy violation where the Qip messenger automatically turned a user's status updates into a microblog that emailed contacts without permission, prompting a discussion on information security and user consent.
A Qip user discovers that installing x-status unexpectedly broadcasts their status updates to friends via email through a microblogging service without consent.
Смысл: The main idea is that QIP committed serious privacy breaches by secretly logging chat history on its servers and automatically publishing user statuses to a public blog service without consent, while providing ineffective tools to manage or delete this data.
QIP is criticized for secretly storing user chat history on its servers and automatically publishing statuses to 'MBlogi' without user permission.
Смысл: The text describes a technical glitch and privacy concern where the Mblogi service (integrated with QIP Infium) automatically created accounts and assigned random, fake names to users who hadn't filled out their profiles.
The author reports that QIP's Mblogi service automatically created a microblog for them and assigned random names to their contacts who lacked profile data.