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Ad Firm Sued for Allegedly Re-Creating Deleted Cookies

Posted August 25, 2010 8:18 AM

From Wired Top Stories:

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. The lawsuit (.pdf), filed in California's Central District federal court last Wednesday, is the third such suit filed this month by privacy attorney Joseph Malley.

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08/25/2010 12:25 PM

"Computer intrusion"?

They're secretly restoring a thing to our PCs that we've expressly removed - and for the purposes of covertly tracking our online activities against our wishes. It rises to the odious level of cyber terrorism. A secret CIA prison in Turkey is appropriate for 'em, I say!
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08/25/2010 8:08 PM

...you SURE they're not covertly talking about our own government and its "new" Anti-Terror Laws?

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08/25/2010 11:33 PM

Privacy? What privacy?. Privacy is an illusion...But this sounds more like the government pretending to do something meaningful with your tax dollars...
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