Word: realjukebox
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Sometimes the spy is an "E.T." program, so called because once it is embedded in your computer it is programmed to "phone home" to its corporate master. RealNetworks' RealJukebox program was found in 1999 to be sending back information to headquarters about what music a user listened to. The Federal Trade Commission decided in May that zBubbles, a now defunct online shopping service once owned by Amazon, probably deceived consumers when it told them that the information it collected about a user's Web surfing would remain anonymous...