The Federal Trade Commission has put the brakes on the business practices of an operation that was selling spyware and showing customers how to remotely install it on other people’s computers without their knowledge or consent. The FTC is announcing a settlement that bars the sellers of the “RemoteSpy” keylogger from advertising that the spyware…
Category: Court
Facebook Sued For Sharing Users’ Names With Advertisers
Wendy Davis reports: A California Facebook user has sued the social networking company for allegedly sharing his personal information with advertisers. In a complaint filed late last week in federal district court in San Jose, David Gould of South Lake Tahoe alleges that Facebook violated its own privacy policy by disclosing to advertisers a host…
Attorney General issues statement regarding protection of military funerals
Attorney General Bill McCollum today released the following statement regarding the Snyder v. Phelps case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court: “Today, I am proud to announce that I have joined several other states in supporting the Snyder family in their U.S. Supreme Court case to protect those who attend military funerals from the kind…
Aspen law firm, two attorneys take on Google
Rick Carroll reports: An Aspen law firm has filed a class-action complaint on behalf of millions of Google e-mail users, alleging the Internet host violated their privacy. Filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court of Denver, the lawsuit seeks to attain class-action status on behalf of users of Google’s free e-mail service, Gmail. Aspen attorneys…