Thursday, May 26, 2011

Aarons Rent-to-Own Spying on Customers with Webcams...

creepy.
The ABA Journal reported that Brian Byrd, 26 and his wife Chrystal, 24, are suing Aarons, Inc. They are alleging Aaron's installed software that could monitor key strokes, capture desktop images, and worst of all use the included WebCam to view and snap pictures. The young couple had no idea they were being spied on and probably never would have known, if the store manager hadn't mistakenly tried to repossess the computer. During a discussion with Brian, the store manager produced a picture of Brian Byrd that was taken by the computers webcam. read the rest