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AOL Is Watching You

by Steve Gibson, Jul 10, 2000 1:22pm PDT
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We've got another internet privacy suit on our hands.. guess who the culprit is? AOL. According to a lawsuit filed against them it seems AOL has been using Netscape to monitor transfers. But not just on their own websites, all websites. Every time you download anything.

The "SmartDownload" feature in the Netscape Communicator Web browser secretly transmits file download information to Netscape and America Online (which acquired Netscape in 1998), it states. [snip] "...The contents of an Internet server's computer -- which contains communications between the site and the user -- is being compromised."




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