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Lawsuit Claims Verizon Conspired to Insert ‘Supercookie’ to Track Mobile Web

Posted on June 25, 2015 by pogowasright.org

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’ lawyers at Kabateck Brown Kellner, Verizon allegedly injected unique tracking numbers into subscribers’ browser requests when they accessed websites through the company’s mobile network.

Read more on Breitbart.com.

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