Claria Hires Privacy Officer

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Link to story: http://www.clickz.com/news/article.php/3343091

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By Janis Mara | April 20, 2004

Controversial ad-supported software player Claria, formerly known as Gator, has hired a chief privacy officer and VP of regulatory and consumer affairs.

D. Reed Freeman Jr., a former staff attorney in the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, will work internally on privacy practices and represent the firm before government agencies, businesses and consumers. Freeman's appointment comes in the wake of Claria's filing for an initial public offering in early April...

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[Nick]

A warning to anyone clicking on the link to the story, it is in IE Spyad's restricted list. Nothing happened to me since my restricted zone is locked down. If you got there without protection, I'm not sure what may happen.


Isn't letting Claria/gator look out for my privacy like letting the fox watch the hen house?

[bigc73542]

-{ Quote: "A warning to anyone clicking on the link to the story, it is in IE Spyad's restricted list. Nothing happened to me since my restricted zone is locked down. If you got there without protection, I'm not sure what may happen.


Isn't letting Claria/gator look out for my privacy like letting the fox watch the hen house?" }-
I went to the link and just got a cookie.

[Detox]

I'm sure there's just a big misunderstanding - surely the privacy officer has been hired in order to protect Gator from the prying eyes of us (Joe Public) :lurking: