Canonical “abused trademark law” to target a site critical of Ubuntu privacy

Posted by BernardSwiss on Nov 8, 2013 7:50 AM EDT
Ars Technica; By Jon Brodkin 		Mail this story
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Canonical, the maker of Ubuntu, has been fending off criticism from privacy advocates because the desktop search tool in recent versions of the operating system also searches the Internet. That means if you're searching your desktop for a file or application, you might also see results from Amazon or other websites. One person who dislikes Canonical's search tool is Micah Lee, a technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who maintains the HTTPS Everywhere project and is CTO of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Lee set up a website called "Fix Ubuntu," which provides instructions for disabling the Internet search tool.

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