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Comment Can you imagine? (Score 1) 554

by sdmonroe on Sunday September 03, 2006 @08:25PM (#16034728) Attached to: Google to Use PC Microphones to Listen In?

User searches Google for tube socks while porn on DVD plays in the background. Two days later at work, surfer searches for CMS sofware with colleagues in company meeting. Google sponser ad asks: "Would you like to see more DVDs which fit your bondage fetish". Evil Google. Evil.

Microsoft Talks Daily With Your Computer 686

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 07, 2006 @09:20PM from the what-could-go-wrong dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft Corp. acknowledged Wednesday that it needs to better inform users that its tool for determining whether a computer is running a pirated copy of Windows also quietly checks in daily with the software maker. The company said the undisclosed daily check is a safety measure designed to allow the tool, called Windows Genuine Advantage, to quickly shut down in case of a malfunction." The EULA is suppose to disclose this daily call-in feature. Lauren Weinstein, who is co-founder of People for Internet Responsibility, was one of the first people to notice the daily communications to Microsoft. Report from Yahoo.com"

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