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Date Posted: 23:05:59 02/27/04 Fri
Author: Observer
Subject: Senators urge making spyware harder to install, easier to eject.

Senators urge making spyware harder to install, easier to eject.

Adrienne Newell, Medill News Service
Thursday, February 26, 2004
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A handful of tech-savvy senators are tackling the
growing problem of spyware with a proposed law that would make it harder for
sites to inflict the invasive programs on unwitting users, and easier for
the recipients to remove them.

The Software Principles Yielding Better Levels of Consumer Knowledge
(SPYBLOCK) Act would "give consumers control over the programs that are
downloaded onto their computers," says cosponsor Barbara Boxer
(D-California). The measure was introduced Thursday by Boxer and Senators
Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) and Conrad Burns (R-Montana).

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