<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a37f33d5-63ef-4056-9d82-dcdb5952df2c/4C777444-57A2-4505-9658-B6F2380795E3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9054738&source=NLT_VVR&nlid=37" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9054738&source=NLT_VVR&nlid=37" style="font-size: 11px;">www.computerworld.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9054738&source=NLT_VVR&nlid=37"><H1>Researcher says Sears downloads spyware</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9054738&source=NLT_VVR&nlid=37"><DIV> According to <A href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=search&searchTerms=Harvard+Business+School" title="Harvard Business School">Harvard Business School</A> Assistant Professor Ben Edelman, <A href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=search&searchTerms=Sears+Holding+Corporation" title="Sears Holding Corporation">Sears Holdings</A>' My SHC Community program falls short of U.S. Federal Trade Commission (<A href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/inform.do?command=search&searchTerms=U.S.+Federal+Trade+Commission" title="U.S. Federal Trade Commission">FTC</A>) standards by failing to notify users exactly what happens when they download the company's marketing software. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9054738&source=NLT_VVR&nlid=37"> And given the invasive nature of the product, Sears has an obligation to make its behavior clearer to users. "The software is not something you'd want on your computer or the computer of anyone you care about," Edelman said in an interview. "It tracks every site you go to, every search you make, every product you buy, and every product you look at but don't buy. It's just spooky."</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4C777444-57A2-4505-9658-B6F2380795E3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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