| Subject: Anti-spyware law wins approval... well kinda |
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Betty
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Date Posted: 02:34:53 06/21/04 Mon
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Betty-repost
's message, "PCs infested with 30 pieces of spyware" on 11:05:02 04/16/04 Fri
House of Representatives subcommittee voted unanimously last week to approve the first-ever anti-spyware bill. Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass (Spy Act), approved by the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection, would levy fines up to $3 million for those who illegally collect personal information, deliver pop-up ads that can't be closed, change a browser's default home page, log keystrokes, or steal identities. "We are one step closer to restoring safety, confidence, and control to consumers when using their own computers," said Rep. Mary Bono, R-Calif., a co-sponsor of the bill, in a statement. Last year, Bono introduced House bill 2929, dubbed the Safeguard Against Privacy Invasion Act, and as recently as April, hearings were held on that bill.
This latest bill, however, is an amended version of the original, with provisions requested by IT vendors, particularly those that sell antivirus and parental-control software. In anotherwords, the people & companies most guilty of infesting your computer, software, OS, browser, media player, anti-virus & IP companies will be for the most part exempt, & will still legally be able to put whatever they want on your computer.
Good old amerikan politicians, take a good thing, a good workable, simple law, with the best intentions... then let cooperate rich pigs pressure them, to render the law almost a useless piece of paper on the books. Meanwhile, the politicians get re-elected, because it looks like they passed a good law.
The only thing this law does is prevent an individual like you or me from putting spyware on somebody's computer without their knowledge. But that's not where the spyware is coming from, it's coming from the IT companies! Individuals don't put spyware on computers... they don't need to. The spyware is already there for anybody to use. It was put there by the people who made your computer, CD drives, who wrote your software, anti-virus, your browser, your IP, your media player... all who will be exempt from this law!
So basically, everybody who dumps spyware into your computer in the REAL world will be above this law as long as they don't steal your identity to clean out your bank account! The billionares won again!
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