Spyware May Finally Become Illegal (please hold your applause until the end of this post)
by Thea - June 15th, 2007 5:44 pm
Spyware is a [expletive-deleted]!
We all hate it, yet we all have it. It’s a total invasion of privacy and it leaves (less computer savy) users feeling violated. Best case scenario, you end up with a ridiculous toolbar or some annoying pop-ups. Maybe your homepage gets hijacked. Bad case, your computer crashes or you need to reformat your harddrive. Worst case, you have your sensitive information stolen and possibly even your identity.
Now finally (FINALLY!!) someone is doing something about it. Arkansas Sen. Mark Pryor introduced a bill yesterday that would make it illegal for companies to install spyware on PCs without user knowledge or consent. As reported by Information Week, the Southern Democrat is targeting hijacking, spam, denial of service, pop-ups, changing default home page and security settings, Web proxies, toolbar setups, etc. This new bill would allow the Federal Trade Commission to step in and impose fines and penalties on those to continue to ruin the internet, our computers, and unfortunately in some cases, our lives.
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