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Thursday, 04 August 2011 00:55

Spotify, Spokeo, AOL, Others Sued Over Web Tracking

Website analytics firm KISSmetrics and more than 20 of its customers, including Spotify, AOL’s About.me, Slideshare.net, Spokeo and the news site Gigaom.com were sued Monday on the grounds that KISSmetrics’ tracking technology violated federal and state privacy laws.

The suit (.pdf), filed in a federal court in Northern California, is seeking class-action status and unspecified damages.

At issue are methods KISSmetrics used — first reported by Wired.com — to track users who have deleted their cookies. The company juggled a variety of other technologies including Flash, Silverlight, HTML5 and so-...

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Spotify, Spokeo, AOL, Others Sued Over Web Tracking

The suit (.pdf), filed in a federal court in Northern California, is seeking class-action status and unspecified damages.

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Highly Resistant Salmonella: Poultry, Antibiotics, Borders, Risk

If you’re a strain of Salmonella, it’s a very good week. If you’re a human, not so much.

There are two stories occurring simultaneously that underline the rising danger of drug-resistant organisms in the food supply, and the porousness of networks for detecting the dangerous bugs in time.

First, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration are tracking a US-wide outbreak of Salmonella Heidelberg that so far has killed one person and sickened 77 others that the agencies know of. (There are likely to be many more victims; most cases of foodborne illness are...

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