Re:Lenovo hit with lawsuit over Superfish snafu
by SwellJoe on Monday February 23, 2015 @05:34PM
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"Was lenovo collecting information about you?"
Superfish was (well, not me specifically, but customers who bought infected laptops). In the first HN thread about this, someone posted a snippet of the JavaScript injected into every page by Superfish which contained user tracking and retargetting data being sent to Superfish, despite denial by Lenovo of doing exactly that.
"In a lot of eurozone countries, courts don't give out big punishing settlements like we do in the US and are, from my understanding, very, very big business friendly. If anything, the eurozone will be worse than the US if you want a punitive settlement."
That's disappointing. I'd always been led to believe the US was more friendly to corporations than most of western Europe. I am certainly no expert. I did a bunch of research in the past, when considering opening an encrypted mail service, and looked at various privacy discussions, and it seemed like Sweden and Germany were among the best western nations for individual privacy, but maybe that only applies to government spying. Guatemala was pretty solid on privacy, too, but it simply isn't large enough to take on Lenovo.
"California and Texas took Sony to task, not Brussels."
Good for California and Texas. I should go talk to my AG (I live in Austin, Texas), though I guess it'd be better coming from someone who was directly effected.
Superfish was (well, not me specifically, but customers who bought infected laptops). In the first HN thread about this, someone posted a snippet of the JavaScript injected into every page by Superfish which contained user tracking and retargetting data being sent to Superfish, despite denial by Lenovo of doing exactly that.
"In a lot of eurozone countries, courts don't give out big punishing settlements like we do in the US and are, from my understanding, very, very big business friendly. If anything, the eurozone will be worse than the US if you want a punitive settlement."
That's disappointing. I'd always been led to believe the US was more friendly to corporations than most of western Europe. I am certainly no expert. I did a bunch of research in the past, when considering opening an encrypted mail service, and looked at various privacy discussions, and it seemed like Sweden and Germany were among the best western nations for individual privacy, but maybe that only applies to government spying. Guatemala was pretty solid on privacy, too, but it simply isn't large enough to take on Lenovo.
"California and Texas took Sony to task, not Brussels."
Good for California and Texas. I should go talk to my AG (I live in Austin, Texas), though I guess it'd be better coming from someone who was directly effected.