Microsoft in push for targeted online ads - WSJ
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| The company has begun combining personal data from the 263 million users of
| its free Hotmail email service with information gained from monitoring
| their searches, the paper said.
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http://in.today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyID=2006-12-26T110332Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-281442-1.xml
http://tinyurl.com/yac6mh
As I said months ago, IE7 is spyware. A lot of Microsoft's software is used
to collect data about the user. The company has history of handing in data
to the US government (recently under no pressure from the DoJ).
Also see:
Microsoft In Talks To Buy Claria
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| For the last two weeks, Microsoft has been in talks to buy Claria, an
| adware marketer formerly called Gator, and best known for its pop-upa
| ds and software that tracks people visiting Web sites.
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http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/30/1329229&tid=109
Windows AntiSpyware Downgrades Claria Detections
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/07/1234217
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