Google found not guilty of stuffing kids with tracking cookies
Viacom is still on the hook, with its Nick.com promise that “HEY GROWN-UPS: We don’t collect ANY personal information about your kids!”
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Viacom is still on the hook, with its Nick.com promise that “HEY GROWN-UPS: We don’t collect ANY personal information about your kids!”
Naked Security – Sophos
So we live in a world where a guy can’t begin to sell vaping-related goods over the Internet without being shaken down by a patent troll claiming a legal right to the courtesy of sending USPS tracking codes via email.
From an Electronic Frontier Foundation press release:
In a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, EFF is representing Jason Cugle, who last year began running a small business selling accessories for electronic cigarettes. Cugle, a Maryland resident, received a letter accusing his company and website (Triple7vaping.com) of violating Shipping & Transit’s patents, which relate to ideas for monitoring and reporting the status of delivery vehicles. Cugle simply sent customer shipments through the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and manually emailed each customer a message saying the package had been shipped and providing the USPS tracking number. Florida-based Shipping & Transit claims its patents cover a variety of methods of notifying people when a vehicle is about to reach its destination, including Cugle’s.
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Facebook is now using its omnipresent Like button to track everyone on the internet, including those who don’t use Facebook.
David Bisson reports.
Ever since it launched the Like button in early 2009 Facebook has been tracking the sites its users visit.
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