A lawsuit directed at Yahoo for allegedly breaching the Telephone Consumer Protection Act through SMS text message found an ally in social media scholar danah boyd, who argues in a report paid for by Yahoo that the messages in question are "a direct benefit to users," MediaPost reports. The plaintiffs in the pending suit believe a second “Welcome” text they received from Yahoo’s instant message-to-text service was superfluous. Boyd disagrees. “Without the context provided by the Welcome Message, the messages received by the cell phone user by their computer-using friends can be quite cryptic," she says in her report, thereby making it essential to the program and not a privacy issue.
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