Posts Tagged ‘ Privacy ’

Warner Brothers puts cuckoo’s egg on DVD

May 19th, 2010 | By | Category: Consumer Protection, Ethics

The latest DVD from my Netflix queue came in the mail today, The Bucket List with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. I noticed that the DVD infringes on my privacy in a questionable way. There is a web page on the disk that, when loaded into a browser, will request an image from digitalcopy.warnerbros.com. This [...]



I am scratching my head about Paypal

Jul 21st, 2009 | By | Category: Ebay, Web

A couple of days ago I received a phishing email involving two Russian sites that asked me to reactivate my Paypal account. Dutyfully I went to the Paypal website and found a link labeled “Security Center”. I clicked on it, and the page that was served contained what I was looking for – in a [...]