Classmates.com Settles Over Deceptive Advertising Lawsuit
I doubt this surprises anyone:
Classmates.com was sued because it allegedly sent out e-mails to anyone registered for its free service, suggesting that their fellow graduates were looking to contact them—they could find out who that person was if they'd simply upgrade to one of the subscription tiers. At least two individuals did so and quickly discovered that the mystery classmate didn't .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]$12 Million Settlement Against Lifelock for Deceptive Advertising
I'm not surprised about the fine, just that it took this long. Of course, they'll just shrug it off and any other lawsuit so long as they make more money than they spend.
Sadly, by the time someone actually shuts Lifelock down (if ever), the people responsible for it will be so rich that it won't make any .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Identity Theft, Lifelock, Scams - Ripoffs - Dirty Tricks, Todd DavisForget to Log Out of Facebook For Much Pain
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Tags: FacebookWireless Auto Repossession System Hacked – Cars Disabled
In Austin Texas, more than 100 customers of a local car dealership suddenly found their cars dead or their horns honking out of control when a vengeful former employee decided to take action using their computerized payment nagging system:
The dealership used a system called Webtech Plus as an alternative to repossessing vehicles that haven’t been paid for. Operated by Cleveland-based Pay Technologies, .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]5 Minutes Posing as a 14-year-old On Social Site
A police official in the UK signed up a new account with a girls name and used data and a photo that suggested he was a 14 year old girl.
Within 90 seconds, a middle-aged man wanted to perform a sex act in front of me.
I was deluged by strangers asking stomach-churning questions about my .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]The Truth About Piracy
Just because I don't download movies doesn't mean I don't think about it pretty much for this reason:
If they made a DVD player with a giant red "play the freaking movie right freaking now" button, I'd buy it. Wouldn't you?
.... [Click here to read the rest of this post]Tags: Customer Abuse, DRM, PiracyFreeCreditReport.com Class Action Suit!
Freecreditreport.com was founded in fraud, but made more than enough money to cover their court fees and are still going strong today. Crime certainly paid for Experian when they created this company.
Tags: Class Action, Courts, Credit Monitoring, Freecreditreport.com, FTC, Good Stuff, Identity Theft, It's About Time, Regulation, Scams - Ripoffs - Dirty TricksWhat’s in Your Data Profile?
LexisNexis and ChoicePoint are two of the largest data-brokers in the world. They’re only product is information about you which they buy and sell with little to no regulation of any kind. I have always wondered what kind of information they keep about us, and now I know. In .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: ChoicePoint, Data Brokering, LexisNexisBlippy – Share Your Purchases In Real Time With The World
When you first hear about Blippy, the purchase-sharing website, you would think that no one in the whole world would be crazy enough to sign up. You’d be wrong.
Blippy is a service where you can share your purchases on most of the major web stores in real time (similar to Twitter). ALF just got .... [Click here to read the rest of this post]
Tags: Blippy, Password Mugging, Social NetworkingUK To Turn Anti-Terror Technology Against Citizens
For whatever reason, the future proposed in the movie V for Vendetta seems to be approaching every day in the UK.
From the Guardian:
Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially deployed in Afghanistan, for the "routine" monitoring of antisocial motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and fly-tippers, in a significant expansion of covert state surveillance. 