McLean-based Clearspring Faces Lawsuits

McLean, Va. –  Clearspring, a widget syndication service provider based in McLean, VA is being sued by a group of parents for illegal tracking of their children’s web activities. According to the lawsuit filed in California, Clearspring tracked their children’s activity illegally by installing Flash-based spy cookies without the user’s knowledge and permission. The cookie, referred as “Zombie Cookie” will also recreate itself after being deleted. Web users who prefers to keep their privacy by deleting cookies regularly were not able to remove cookies from Clearspring.

The lawsuit also cited that Clearspring harvested personal information such as video viewing habits, gender, age, race, education level, geographic location, sexual preference, what the users like to read, home address, phone number, health condition, and more.

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