Hilary Niles reports a settlement between Vermont and Aaron’s, a firm that was charged by the FTC and sued civilly by customers over the use of remotely activated spyware that captured images of customers. As reported on this blog in numerous previous entries, the software enabled the franchises to locate [Read More…]
FourthAmendment.com has a follow-up on a case covered a number of times on this site in the past. Long-time readers may remember the Aaron’s Rental case and how Crystal and Brian Byrd sued Aspen Way, as did others, and how the FTC got involved, too. Today’s update comes from a [Read More…]
Wow. I suspected Aaron’s problems over spyware in rent-to-own computers weren’t over, but they just agreed to pay $28.4 million to settle California’s charges against them that included privacy violations: Attorney General Kamala D. Harris today announced a $28.4 million settlement with Aaron’s, Inc., the second largest rent-to-own business in [Read More…]
R. Robin McDonald reports: Former customers who are suing Aaron’s Inc. and its franchises claim that when the rental company installed remotely activated secret spyware on its rental computers, company employees had few, if any, concerns about the privacy of the customers whose screen shots, webcam photos and computer keystroke [Read More…]