Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission finalized the order settling charges that online advertising company Chitika, Inc. tracked consumers’ online activities even after they chose to opt out of online tracking on the company’s website. The FTC alleged that, unbeknownst to consumers, the “opt out” lasted for only 10 days. The final…
Category: U.S.
Prosecutors Demand Limitless Warrant in Vermont Computer Search
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), along with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and ACLU Vermont, urged the Vermont Supreme Court today to reject prosecutors’ demands to override a judge’s instructions and allow a limitless warrant for a computer search. During the investigation into an alleged identity theft last year, a detective from the Burlington…
Veterans association pays $440 fine for ‘list’ creator
Benjamin Wood reports: Local members of a veterans association paid the $440 fine of Leah Carson, one of two women convicted of creating and distributing a list of 1,300 alleged illegal immigrants that included Social Security numbers and other personal information. Ted Van Meeteren, the state chair of the American Combat Veterans of War, said…
Erie judge refuses requests to shut down computer tracking software
Lisa Thompson reports: A federal judge in Erie has ruled that the shutdown of tracking software installed on computers sold by some Aaron’s rental stores, the subject of a class-action lawsuit, would be premature. U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Paradise Baxter has filed a report and recommendation after Crystal and Brian Byrd requested a preliminary injunction…