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Yahoo!, the most-trafficked site on the internet, is collecting advertising revenue from click fraud and spyware vendors, according to a paper released by a Harvard Law School (HLS) student on Tuesday...
Edelman, a spyware expert, found evidence of two kinds of click fraud schemes through Yahoo—one in which companies repeatedly click their competitors’ ads in order to rack up the number of views—and charges—and another in which spyware installed on the computer reports false clicks...
...last week that lobbyist Jack Abramoff was sentenced to prison for fraud, the Senate passed a new ethics bill. The House will take up the issue next. Here's a look at reforms Congress seems willing to accept...
...Percentage of fraud complaints in 2005 that were Internet related
...visa offers no special path to permanent residency or citizenship. The bill doubles existing civil penalties for employers who hire illegal immigrants and authorizes the addition of 10,000 agents over five years to investigate businesses for violations of immigration law and 1,000 agents to look for fraud in visa applications. To improve policing on the borders, it increases agents and enhances surveillance technology, among other things...