A question on data protection

[Evan Platt]

Do you mean Name, Birthday, etc?

This is pulled from the ICQ server, AFAIK. To disable it, you'd need 
to disable it / delete it from ICQ's website. Log into www.icq.com , 
go to My Page, and change the information.  But I don't see a way to 
disable it (I think that would defeat the 'purpose' of ICQ...)

At 12:26 PM 2/3/2009, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am writing you this message, because I would like to ask you the 
>following question:
>
>"I use Ubuntu 8.10, and Pidgin 2.5.2. When I connect to the IRC 
>protocol, some of my data appear. So, I was wondering if there is 
>any way for me to hide/change the piece of information: 
>username at hostname, which appears when someone else uses the "info" 
>feature to find out my identity".
>
>I would like to thank you in advace for your help.