Monday, January 7, 2002

User Web habits tracked by some music-swapping programs The Web surfing habits of people who used the LimeWire, Grokster and KaZaA music-sharing programs were surreptitiously tracked because those programs were linked to an online sweepstakes game called ClickTillUWin, in which players pick numbers and win cash prizes. The company that operates the sweepstakes game says it told outside distributors to get users' permission before installing the software, but in these cases that action was not taken. The three companies have posted new versions of their software without the tracking component, and LimeWire has issued an apology. (AP/*USA Today*, 4 Jan 2002; NewsScan Daily, 7 January 2002) http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2002/01/04/limewire-tracking.htm ["NewsScan" via risks-digest Volume 21, Issue 86] 0:00 # G!