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• Adware Maker Challenges Utah Anti-Spyware Law

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1024_3-5190880.html
  In its legal motion WhenU is charging that Utah's recently enacted Spyware Control Act violates free-speech guarantees and could unfairly harm its business. [CNET]

• Methods and Effects of Spyware - WhenU Violating Own Privacy Policy

  http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/ftc-031904.pdf
  Comment submitted to recent FTC hearings about spyware, alleging that WhenU software violates its own privacy policy by transmitting some of user-visited web page URLs to its own servers.

• Pop-up Seller Loses Round in Court

  http://news.cnet.com/2100-1024_3-5135313.html
  "A U.S. district court judge bars WhenU from delivering pop-up ads to some Net visitors, going against decisions in favor of the software maker's controversial marketing tactics." [CNET News]

• Spyware Company Sues Utah Over Anti-Spyware Law

  http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/04/13/1750259.shtml?tid=123&tid=158&tid=99
  Slashdot discussion forum takes up issues surrounding this news.

• U-Haul v. WhenU.com, 2003 WL 22071556 (E.D.Va. 2003)

  http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/cyberlaw/U-HaulVWhenU(DVa2003).htm
  A Federal Court in Virginia held that WhenU's pop-up ad didn't infringe U-Haul's trademarks and copyrights.

• WhenU Spams Google, Breaks Google "No Cloaking" Rules

  http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/whenu-spam/
  Author presents detailed evidence to show that WhenU sends bogus search results to search engines, in violation of search engines' rules.

 

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