TeMerc
join:2004-01-22
Phoenix, AZ
| Claria's Practices Don't Meet Its Lawyers' Claims
From Ben Edleman:
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Among the highlights of my winter holiday reading was a MediaPost interview of Reed Freeman, chief privacy officer of Claria. Freeman makes a series of claims about Claria's practices -- setting out high standards that he claims Claria already meets. As it turns out, his claims are in multiple instances verifiably false.
For example, Freeman claims Claria has "the intuitive and standard Windows uninstall process." I disagree. Install Claria software in a bundle with Kazaa, and there will be no "Claria," "Gator," or "GAIN" listing in Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs. Same for the other programs that bundle Gator (like DivX and Grokster). Instead, users who want to remove Gator are required to figure out that they need to select the "Kazaa" entry in Add/Remove Programs. That's neither intuitive nor standard.
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