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Girma Nigusse

Microsoft faces class-action suit over WGA tool

June 30, 2006

The antipiracy tool gathers data on a user's computer and sends it to Microsoft

Jeremy Kirk

In introducing WGA, Microsoft has found that computer users are already sensitized to the question of how they are notified about software installation and privacy issues. Late last year, Sony BMG Music Entertainment provoked controversy by shipping 15 million music CDs containing invasive copy protection software that installed itself on buyers' computers.

Source: http://www.computerworld.com/

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