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Under The Hood When Gary Numan sang, “Here in my car, I feel safest of all,” he didn’t know about the rapacious data collection practices of modern-day automakers. Ars Technica reports that, late last week, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) sent letters to 14 car companies, including Ford, GM, Honda and Hyundai, asking pointed questions about […]

Ben Edelman and Blinkx can’t get enough of each other. Three months after Edelman – an associate professor at Harvard – swatted ad tech firm Blinkx for allegedly deceptive adware install practices, and three weeks after Blinkx hit back with a point-by-point rebuttal that also called out Edelman’s financial ties to clients who have shorted the […]