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Child-Safety Software Secretly Records, Sells Kids’ IM Conversations

Adam Frucci September 9, 2009 4:40 AM

If you buy software to protect your kids from the scary parts of the internet, you should be careful that it’s not spying on their private conversations for profit. Because that’s exactly what they’ve been doing.

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