Tuesday, 17. August 2010
Topic: WEB - on August 17, 2010 at 11:05:00 AM CEST
Disney sued for spying on kids with 'zombie cookies'
Walt Disney's internet subsidiary and several of its partners have been sued for allegedly using cookies based on Adobe's Flash Player to track highly personal information about their users, many of whom were minors.
The LSOs, or locally shared objects are better known as Flash Cookies, and their ability to gather detailed user information over long periods of time without a trace has been understood since at least 2007. Now, attorneys representing people who browsed websites that employed the technology claim it was used to track them in ways that violate the sites' privacy policies.
... Comment
