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Class Claims Fox Hacks Into Computers

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Dissent

Karina Brown reports:

A class action claims Fox Entertainment Group hacked into millions of computers to install “rogue, cookie-like tracking code” to snoop on people who visit Fox’s “American Idol” website.

The class claims Fox and Clearspring Technologies committed crimes, circumvented privacy settings, and that the rogue devices reinstall themselves even if their victims can find and delete them.

Lead plaintiff Erica Intzekostas claims Fox and Clearspring Technologies concocted the plan “so they could help themselves to users’ personal information, and continue doing so for as long as defendants liked without ever having to ask or take a user’s ‘no’ for an answer. In fact, users’ ‘no’ answers were the reason defendants devised the scheme in the first place.”

Read more on Courthouse News, where you can also see a copy of the complaint (pdf).

Cross-posted from PogoWasRight.org because the complaint alleges both privacy invasions and computer crimes.

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