Sears has agreed to settle FTC charges that it failed to adequately disclose the scope of consumers’ personal information it collected via a downloadable software application. According to the FTC complaint, Sears represented to consumers the software would track their online browsing. However, the software would also monitor consumers’ online secure sessions and collect information transmitted in those sessions, including contents of shopping carts, online bank statements, drug prescription r

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FTC & Sears settle charges regarding tracking software