Clickz - WhenU Banished By Google, Yahoo! - The adware firm is no longer listed in Google and Yahoo!'s search results because of charges of 'cloaking.' - http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3354171
WhenU Can Keep On Popping Up - A federal judge refused to grant Wells Fargo's request to shut down the desktop advertising service. [ClickZ News] - http://www.clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3111501
Search Engines Delete Adware Company WhenU - Yahoo and Google disabled links to WhenU for "cloaking" to dupe search engines into favorably listing decoy Web pages.[ZDNet] - http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5212479.html
WhenU Spams Google, Breaks Google "No Cloaking" Rules - Author presents detailed evidence to show that WhenU sends bogus search results to search engines, in violation of search engines' rules. - http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/whenu-spam/
Spyware Company Sues Utah Over Anti-Spyware Law - Slashdot discussion forum takes up issues surrounding this news. - http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/04/13/1750259.shtml?tid=123&tid=158&tid=99
Adware Maker Challenges Utah Anti-Spyware Law - In its legal motion WhenU is charging that Utah's recently enacted Spyware Control Act violates free-speech guarantees and could unfairly harm its business. [CNET] - http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-5190880.html
U-Haul v. WhenU.com, 2003 WL 22071556 (E.D.Va. 2003) - A Federal Court in Virginia held that WhenU's pop-up ad didn't infringe U-Haul's trademarks and copyrights. - http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/cyberlaw/U-HaulVWhenU(DVa2003).htm
EFF: Trademark Law Shouldn't Prejudice Internet Ads - EFF is asking a federal appeals court to reverse a lower court decision involving WhenU's right to provide online advertisements during web browsing. Online contact lens distributor 1-800 Contacts won that decision. - http://www.eff.org/IP/TM/20040219_eff_pr.php
Pop-up Seller Loses Round in Court - "A U.S. district court judge bars WhenU from delivering pop-up ads to some Net visitors, going against decisions in favor of the software maker's controversial marketing tactics." [CNET News] - http://news.com.com/2100-1024_3-5135313.html
Methods and Effects of Spyware - WhenU Violating Own Privacy Policy - Comment submitted to recent FTC hearings about spyware, alleging that WhenU software violates its own privacy policy by transmitting some of user-visited web page URLs to its own servers. - http://www.benedelman.org/spyware/ftc-031904.pdf