I think it is pretty disturbing if more companies start to use these kind of software. (I hope they registered it, so no one can easily copy the concept :-)) In the first place it seems very un-ethic to me to withdraw something from someone's personal environment (in this case a PC) without VERY clearly communicating that this is part of the product. Even stronger, this seems like theft to me just like someone who would walk in to my house and take my address book as part of something I ordered. No, you can't do that.

I was added as well on the Huminity network and I'm also very concerned about their commercial model. As we all know building products costs money so how would they like to get their ROI's? What does this mean for the privacy of those unwillingly added?

In the end it's, again, also one of the very well known flaws of Microsoft products: I'm still happy to work on a Mac and would sometimes wish everyone who is having me in their contact list would do so too. :-)

Please, let's all help stopping these companies like Huminity...

Best Regards,



Jeroen van de Wiel
http://www.jeroen.com