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Intuit censored posts relating to the duplicate charges for 
payroll tax tables last year.

mike block. 

On Sat, 03 Feb 2001 00:35:21 GMT, "Mike Bartlett"
<mikebartlett@earthlink.net> wrote:

>Actually, Intuit has privacy statements posted all over the place - you can
>find it in the help in the program, or you can go to www.quickbooks.com, and
>read the Privacy Policy stated there.
>
>As far as the mechanics is concenrned, it is my understanding that the
>schema for the invoice is sent in stripped down form to a rendering server,
>which formats it into HTML, and then forwards it.  No info is retained
>regarding this transaction, as I understand it - certainly far less than
>your bank, which processes everything for you - far beyond anything that
>might be gleaned from an invoice.
>
>  If it is a concern for you, then perhaps you should not use the feature
>
>I have never experienced censorship at the Intuit Boards, but I guess it
>could happen.  I know for a fact that they did not censor posts when some
>really harsh things were being posted about them last year.
>
>"PeteOI812" <peteoi812@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:7aql7tgqa0v1ogrekei59gt8a0ucer49e9@4ax.com...
>> Posted originally to the Quickbooks message board, but it somehow
>> mysteriously vanished the next day from their system so Im posting it
>> here to make sure anyone who might never see it will. Perhaps Im dead
>> wrong but why not bring it up.
>>
>> Pete
>>
>> Last night I was curious to find out how QuickBooks Invoices that were
>> not Billonline were handled. I didn't remember it ever asking me what
>> type of email package I used nor the SMTP address of my ISP. I ran a
>> network capture utility on my connection and to my surprise, I found
>> that QuickBooks was sending my invoices to Intuit for processing,
>> which then was sent to my customer. While it did use 128 bit
>> encryption for the conversation between my system and Intuits, it left
>> me very concerned as to what happened to my data once it reached
>> QuickBooks. I have found privacy policies related to requesting online
>> bill payments, but nothing on invoice data. I understand that if
>> Intuit had the forethought to allow me to send the invoices via my
>> ISP's SMTP gateway or had produced a plug in for my email package that
>> my invoice data would not be secure between my system and my
>> customers, but I again very concerned that all of those invoices go to
>> Intuit and they have no available privacy policy. Even if they had a
>> privacy policy its not legally binding at this time and they could do
>> anything they wanted with that information. In addition to this
>> concern, I'm certain they back up their systems which would leave me
>> to think that the potential of having my data end up on a backup tape
>> somewhere is very possible. This seems to be another case of
>> QuickBooks being very intrusive. This brings up more concerns as to
>> what the average person may not be aware of. Its obvious that during
>> certain transactions that Intuit collects Company Data when using
>> certain features. It tells you its collecting it. What is it
>> collecting? Their privacy policy for the billonline service says they
>> may use some of the data for their use, what data is that? No log
>> files I can find, indicates what was sent to Intuit? I can see this
>> being a major issue. One more point, I posted this same information
>> last night and was able to read it online, but for some reason it
>> disappeared from the message board? Was it censored? Perhaps a better
>> forum would be other sites and newsgroups? Perhaps I'm just paranoid
>> but then again, my privacy is being breached and I'm highly frustrated
>> that I now own QuickBooks 2001 with out Intuit making light of much of
>> this and thinking I was just a dumb end user who would never have
>> concerns as to where my data and my customers data ended up. Forbid if
>> I put information on the Estimate or Proposal that I was under a
>> non-disclosure with the customer. Wouldn't it have been much smarter
>> to tell me up front? If They had given me the option of having it sent
>> through my current email package I could have opted to even use PGP
>> encryption (Public Private Key) or use my customers PKI certificate
>> (Verisign and likes) to send this data securely to my customers.
>> Perhaps my best option is to go back to using Adobe Acrobat PDF
>> generation so that Intuit doesn't have its hands in my business. If
>> someone from Intuit could address this issue I would greatly
>> appreciate it! On a side note, perhaps I should make such a big stink
>> because the EMAIL Invoices look awful and are rigid in only allowing
>> me to send them in HTML which blocks any of my customers using back
>> end systems that strip HTML off of the messages for security reasons,
>> older email packages and the likes from even getting my invoices. I
>> can see it now, Mr. Customer, can you get HTML formatted documents?
>> How did my invoice look, could you read it, No ok well Ill put you on
>> the paper list, and it looked ok, well you don't mind if Intuit has
>> the potential to see all that information each month do you?
>>
>> Pete
>>
>>
>

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