Doubleclick Privacy Suit Settlement Approved

behrman writes: "This Yahoo-hosted version of a C|Net article announces that Doubleclick is now allowed to settle the class-action privacy suit against it. Terms include purging databases of personal information, hiring a third-party company to ensure compliance, running a 33-million-banner-ad privacy education campaign, and requiring opt-in for future marketing data collection. This makes the preliminary approval from two months ago offical. Other (older) stories: Privacy groups oppose the settlement, and the settlement is proposed."

Comments

Doesn't matter much - I blacklisted them ages ago

[EricLivingston]

I deny all connections to doubleclick.com and doubleclick.net (along with about 70 other urls) in my router, so none of this crap gets near the machines on my home LAN. it's scary how many dozens of blocks occur in just a few hours of normal surfing...