OKay, what FECKING PLANET am I on?! A Gator/spyware exec working on privacy guidelines? Aren't there drug tests anymore for these people? The fox designing the henhouse here...
The Department of Homeland Security has named Claria, an adware maker that online publishers once dubbed a "parasite," to a federal privacy advisory board.
An executive from Claria, formerly called Gator, will be one of 20 members of the committee, the department said Wednesday.
"This committee will provide the department with important recommendations on how to further the department's mission while protecting the privacy of personally identifiable information of citizens and visitors of the United States," Nuala O'Connor Kelly, the department's chief privacy officer, said in a statement.
Claria bundles its pop-up advertising software with ad-supported networks such as Kazaa.
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It's very simple, what better way to snoop on what people are doing that quietly installing logging software on their PC that captures everything do or say and logs anything potentially "dangerous" and sends it back to the good old Department of Homeland Security for analysis?
Not long before commenting on a night out as "the bomb" will generate a call from the FBI.
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