The Risks Digest Volume 20: Issue 81
Privacy from Companies
5/2/2000; 10:50:12 PM Feb 21, 2000: The attorney general of Michigan has filed a "notice of intended action" against DoubleClick, charging the Web advertising firm with "failing to disclose to Internet users that DoubleClick is systematically implanting electronic 'cookies,' or electronic surveillance files, on hard drives of users' computers without their knowledge or consent." Hey, that's my state! Go Michigan!