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.: Retargeting Ads Follow Surfers to Other Sites - 30th Aug 2010
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"The shoes that Julie Matlin recently saw on Zappos.com were kind of cute, or so she thought. But Ms. Matlin wasn’t ready to buy and left the site. Then the shoes started to follow her everywhere she went online. An ad for those very shoes showed up on the blog TechCrunch. It popped up again on several other blogs and on Twitpic..."
[NY Times] |
.: Ad Firm Sued for Allegedly Re-Creating Deleted Cookies - 25th Aug 2010
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"Specificmedia, one of the net’s largest ad-serving and tracking companies, has been hit with a federal lawsuit accusing the company of violating computer intrusion laws by secretly re-creating cookies deleted by users. At issue is the use of Adobe Flash to keep copies of a user’s browser cookies in order to re-spawn cookies after users clear them..."
[Wired] |
.: Radio Frequency Identification Tags: Identity Theft Danger or Modern Aid? - 19th Aug 2010
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"In a recent NewsHour report on cybersecurity, we showed security expert Chris Paget, shown above, climbing on a 29th floor hotel balcony in Las Vegas to demonstrate how he could read radio frequency identification tags at "long distances."..."
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.: Google Agonizes on Privacy as Ad World Vaults Ahead - 10th Aug 2010
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"A confidential, seven-page Google Inc. "vision statement" shows the information-age giant in a deep round of soul-searching over a basic question: How far should it go in profiting from its crown jewels—the vast trove of data it possesses about people's activities?..."
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.: Privacy Lawsuit Targets Net Giants Over ‘Zombie’ Cookies - 28th Jul 2010
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"A wide swath of the net’s top websites, including MTV, ESPN, MySpace, Hulu, ABC, NBC and Scribd, were sued in federal court Friday on the grounds they violated federal computer intrusion law by secretly using storage in Adobe’s Flash player to re-create cookies deleted by users..."
[Wired] |
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