Adware maker gets job with Homeland Security

Purveyor of adware, Claria is going to give advice to the Department of Homeland Security on privacy matters.

According to CNET, Claria, formally called Gator, is to sit on a 20 person committee which will look at how Homeland Security does its job while protecting the privacy of US citizens.

The company knows a lot about privacy. Users branded it parasitical because its pop-up ad software was installed without adequate permission and hard to delete.

Catalogue retailer L.L. Bean sued Gator for alleged trademark infringement. In February 2003, Gator settled a case brought against it by The Washington Post, The New York Times, Dow Jones and other media companies. It was also at the centre of several German court injunctions.