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Microsoft tracks customers without consent: lawsuit

Posted on August 31, 2011 by pogowasright.org

Dan Levine reports:

Microsoft allegedly tracks the location of its mobile customers even after users request that tracking software be turned off, according to a new lawsuit.

The proposed class action, filed in a Seattle federal court on Wednesday in the US, says Microsoft intentionally designed camera software on the Windows Phone 7 operating system to ignore customer requests that they not be tracked.

Read more on The Age

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