Chriss W. Street reports: Marketing company Turn Inc. of Redwood City has been sued in what looks to be a huge mass tort lawsuit alleging a conspiracy with telecommunications giant Verizon Wireless to engage in undisclosed tracking and storing of Internet browsing histories. According to a complaint filed Friday in the Los Angeles Superior Court by plaintiffs’…
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Google eavesdropping tool installed on computers without permission
Samuel Gibbs reports: Privacy campaigners and open source developers are up in arms over the secret installing of Google software which is capable of listening in on conversations held in front of a computer. First spotted by open source developers, the Chromium browser – the open source basis for Google’s Chrome – began remotely installing audio-snooping code that…
Yandex Posts Longest Slump Since March on Internet Privacy Bill
Aleksandra Gjorgievska reports: Yandex NV fell for a sixth day in New York,the longest losing streak since March, as the Russian parliament considers an Internet privacy bill that could impose regulatory costs on the country’s biggest search engine. The shares sank 3 percent to $16.26 on Monday, the lowest close since April 2. The stock…
Apple invented a new type of viral advertising that can track users in social media
Jim Edwards reports: Apple has been granted a patent for a new viral advertising management system that can track ads or media content as it is shared via different methods, such as email, texts and social networks like Facebook and Twitter. The patent also says that it can store users’ names, addresses, and age in…