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Gator 'spyware' investigated by Harvard

...advertising Gator is showing and to whom it is targeted", said author Ben Edelman, who has testified as an expert witness against Gator in at... Read more

22 May, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Who?s watching the watchers?

Ben Edelman may be spyware's most dangerous enemy. The 25-year-old... Read more

6 May, 2005 by Declan McCullagh

Google JotSpot exposes user data, says researcher

...indexed by Google's crawler and made accessible on the web, said Ben Edelman, a Harvard Business School professor and security researcher. "This is not... Read more

31 October, 2008 by Elinor Mills

Microsoft to publish its privacy rules

...s practices are impressive and commendable, but others are badly bungled, said Ben Edelman, a spyware researcher and Harvard doctoral candidate. He supports Microsoft's... Read more

26 June, 2006 by Joris Evers

Sunbelt ruffles spyware feathers

...Federal Trade Commission might attack such a restriction as unfair or deceptive." Ben Edelman, a Harvard Law School student and spyware researcher, agreed. "When these... Read more

11 November, 2005 by Joris Evers

Anti-spyware group seeks to define spyware

...their software from being flagged and removed by anti-spyware products, said Ben Edelman, a Harvard law student and an adware and spyware researcher. "The... Read more

13 July, 2005 by Joris Evers

Microsoft seeks legal shield from spyware

...sued Lavasoft — maker of Ad-Aware — in federal court. And spyware researcher Ben Edelman has indicated that he has received threats from Claria and WhenU... Read more

25 May, 2005 by Declan McCullagh

Warring adware firms in court

...person is likely to take some action to address the situation," said Ben Edelman, a researcher at Harvard University. Edelman says he has recorded instances... Read more

8 December, 2004 by Stefanie Olsen

Adware company loses its links

...The practices came to light following an investigation by anti-spyware crusader Ben Edelman, a Harvard student who found that the company used a technique... Read more

14 May, 2004 by Stefanie Olsen

Networks evade VeriSign's SiteFinder

...the study found. "Some ISPs (Internet service providers) did block SiteFinder," said Ben Edelman, the principal author of the report and a student fellow at... Read more

7 October, 2003 by Jim Hu

Report criticises Google's porn filters

...could do a much better job than they have so far," said Ben Edelman, the student fellow at the Berkman Center who performed the research... Read more

11 April, 2003 by Declan McCullagh

Public get a say on DMCA

...which the movie studios successfully sued for distributing a DVD-descrambling utility. Ben Edelman, a filtering-software researcher at Harvard University's Berkman Center, sued... Read more

20 November, 2002 by Declan McCullagh

Digital copyright law on trial

...a challenge to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) continue. Attorneys for Ben Edelman, who specialises in investigating flaws in Internet blocking software, filed a... Read more

31 October, 2002 by Declan McCullagh

Google excludes controversial sites

...the main Google.com site. The Harvard report, prepared by law student Ben Edelman and assistant professor Jonathan Zittrain and scheduled to be released on... Read more

24 October, 2002 by Declan McCullagh

Civil liberties group takes on DMCA

...will be different, the ACLU hopes, because it features a sympathetic plaintiff, Ben Edelman, and because it involves the socially beneficial act of critiquing software... Read more

25 July, 2002 by Declan McCullagh

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