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Spyware company on federal privacy advisory board

By Gearhead, NetworkWorld.com, 03/03/05

We wish we could be surprised about the news that a vice president from Claria Corporation, formerly named Gator, a company founded on some of the most annoying and disruptive adware in the history of that sorry subject, has been appointed to the Homeland Security privacy board. You'd think that the bureaucrats with the help of their advisors would have figured out that such an appointment would be controversial but apparently they aren't that sharp.

Indeed, a C|Net article quotes Nuala O'Connor Kelly, the department's chief privacy officer, as saying that the Claria droid in question, Vice President D. Reed Freeman, will "bring his courage and conviction to the board, and will contribute productively--and constructively--to the board's and the public's dialogue on privacy and homeland security."

We're all doomed.

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