Gator in the Homeland Security Dept. Claria privacy exec joins integrity committee Salon and CNET are reporting that D. Reed Freeman, the "chief privacy officer" of Claria Corporation (makers of the much loathed Gator application) has been appointed to the Dept. of Homeland Security's "Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee". So we've got this straight: an exec for the same company that sued websites for calling its product spyware, buries ridiculous demands in its EULA, has a history of using stealth installation techniques to mislead customers, and has been sued by a half-dozen web publishers for being a "parasite", is now advising Uncle Sam on privacy and integrity?
Posted by Cremator (Member # 8) on :
Cute. My only hope is that they are treating this like hiring virus writers to combat new viruses...