Who’s watching the watchers?
News Ben Edelman may be spyware's most dangerous enemy. When testing spyware and adware, Edelman isn't about to sacrifice his own Windows XP computer. A law student at Harvard University, Edelman is also working on a doctoral degree in economics.
[May 6, 2005, 13:10]
Digital copyright law on trial
News Attorneys for Ben Edelman, who specialises in investigating flaws in Internet blocking software, filed a 26-page document arguing that his work is imperilled by legal threats from N2H2, a filtering company based in Seattle.
[October 31, 2002, 8:30]
Adware company loses its links
News 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 known as "cloaking" to dupe search engines into favourably listing decoy Web pages that...
[May 14, 2004, 13:00]
Google JotSpot exposes user data, says researcher
News As a result, sensitive user data is indexed by Google's crawler and made accessible on the web, said Ben Edelman, a Harvard Business School professor and security researcher. This is the case even for wiki pages that groups designated specifically...
[October 31, 2008, 10:32]
Google excludes controversial sites
News The Harvard report, prepared by law student Ben Edelman and assistant professor Jonathan Zittrain and scheduled to be released on Thursday, is the result of automated testing of Google's massive 2.5 billion-page index and comparing the results...
[October 24, 2002, 7:56]
Networks evade VeriSign's SiteFinder
News Some ISPs (Internet service providers) did block SiteFinder," said Ben Edelman, the principal author of the report and a student fellow at the Berkman Centre. Edelman said, however, that American companies were not very aggressive in blocking...
[October 7, 2003, 11:35]
Gator 'spyware' investigated by Harvard
News The report "provides some data as to how much 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 least one legal challenge to its service.
[May 22, 2003, 11:34]
Report criticises Google's porn filters
News If Google put some of its smart people on this task, they 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. It doesn't matter whether SafeSearch omits a site...
[April 11, 2003, 7:56]
Warring adware firms in court
News Once the computer is infected with 10 different unwanted programs, the 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 of DirectRevenue's...
[December 8, 2004, 11:00]
Anti-spyware group seeks to define spyware
News It may give them the tools to prevent their software from being flagged and removed by anti-spyware products, said Ben Edelman, a Harvard law student and an adware and spyware researcher. Internet users know which software they don't like, and anti...
[July 13, 2005, 16:05]
Microsoft seeks legal shield from spyware
News And spyware researcher Ben Edelman has indicated that he has received threats from Claria and WhenU. Microsoft wants the US Senate to rewrite anti-spyware legislation in order to protect companies that provide spyware removal utilities.
[May 25, 2005, 10:45]
Microsoft to publish its privacy rules
News Some of Microsoft's practices are impressive and commendable, but others are badly bungled, said Ben Edelman, a spyware researcher and Harvard doctoral candidate. Microsoft plans in August to publicly release the privacy rules its employees have to...
[June 26, 2006, 12:10]
Civil liberties group takes on DMCA
News This case 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 that is frequently used in public schools and libraries.
[July 25, 2002, 14:58]
Public get a say on DMCA
News Ben Edelman, a filtering-software researcher at Harvard University's Berkman Center, sued in July to overturn the second section of the DMCA. Companies that make filtering software typically include an encrypted list of sexually explicit or...
[November 20, 2002, 16:03]
