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We had reported on Thursday about the Sears spyware scandal. Well, the saga continues today with Sears scrambling to make amends after their tryst with spyware went public.
Sears has reportedly shut down a part of another of their e-commerce websites (see the statement at the end of this news) today. The shutdown follows the admission [...]

Harvard Business School’s Assistant Professor, Ben Edelman, recently levelled serious allegations against retail giant, Sears.
Edelman’s claim is substantiated by Sears’s own Privacy Statement. In this statement, they expressly inform the users that the user information form that customers fill in while registering will install a software in their computers that:
monitors all of the internet behavior [...]