OnStar Tracks Your Car Even When You Cancel Service
Navigation-and-emergency-services company OnStar is notifying its six million account holders that it will keep a complete accounting of the speed and location of OnStar-equipped vehicles, even for drivers who discontinue monthly service.
OnStar began e-mailing customers Monday about its update to the privacy policy, which grants OnStar the right to sell that GPS-derived data in an anonymized format.
Adam Denison, a spokesman for the General Motors subsidiary, said OnStar does not currently sell customer data, but it reserves that right. He said both the new and old privacy policies allow...
Full Tilt Poker is an Online Ponzi Scheme, Feds Say
Federal prosecutors alleged Tuesday that an online gambling site whose internet domain the United States seized in April was a scam, and executives lined their pockets with millions of dollars purloined from players’ wagering accounts.
“Full Tilt was not a legitimate poker company, but a global Ponzi scheme,” Preet Bharara, the U.S. attorney in Manhattan, said in a statement.
The allegations come five months after Bharara seized the finances and domains of the world’s largest offshore, online gambling sites, including Full Tilt Poker of Ireland. Bharara initially charged Isai Scheinberg, the...
Geek Goddess Zooey Deschanel Finds Smart Sitcom in New Girl
Smart, pretty and talented, Zooey Deschanel spent much of the past decade charming audiences with a parade of “quirky girlfriend” movie roles (interspersed with an unfortunate turn in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening).
But her days serving as droll eye candy opposite Will Ferrell (Elf), Jim Carrey (Yes Man) and Joseph...