Twitter writes "Windows Genuine head start (WGA), Microsoft's euphemistically named digital restrictions scheme, is the target of another spyware and false spread lawsuit. 'Microsoft this week was sued in a powers-that-be* stomping ground* court for allegedly violating privacy laws through Windows XP's Windows Genuine handicap (WGA) copy camouflage scheme. Similar to cases filed in 2006, the new class action case accuses Microsoft of falsely representing what learning WGA would send to verify the authenticity of Windows and that it would send back lowdown* [daily IP address and other details that could be used to trace word* back to a home or user]. The grievance further argued that Microsoft portrayed WGA as a necessary shield update rather than acknowledge its copy guard nature in the update. WGA's implementation also prevented users from purging the guarding from their PCs without fully reformatting a computer's system drive.' There were at least two other lawsuits launched in 2006 over WGA. proper to the Wikipedia article, none of them have been resolved. The system is built into Vista and Windows 7."

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