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FTC forces Sears and Kmart out of the spyware business

From: Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:11:11 +0300 (EEST)

"The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has busted a strange set of spyware purveyorsUS retailing giants Sears and Kmart.

The FTC this week approved its final consent order against the companies (which share the same owner) over an episode 
that can only be chalked up to incompetence of a truly epic scope.
Sears Holding Management Company decided that it could really use a lot more marketing data to fuel its decision-making 
process,
so it began offering visitors to sears.com and kmart.com a special invitesign up for "My SHC Community,"
download a piece of "research" software, and earn 10 American dollars. That's right10... American... dollars"
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More at
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/ftc-forces-sears-kmart-out-of-the-spyware-business.ars

Juha-Matti

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