Senators push for anti-spyware law

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touching upon the big problem

"The second paragraph must explain clearly any information gathered and sent anywhere by the program."

I agree, but it's the advertisers that have the money and thus have the most influence in shaping legislation. Really what you said should apply to EVERY business out there. Period. Every business should have full disclosure over what they do with your information. Of course if they did most everyone would become paranoid and not do business with many or all businesses. And the huge money generated from shuffling info around would have to disappear, and businesses simply will not let that happen. There's too much money at stake.
IMO, the problem with getting any effective legislation passed is that they need to strike a balance of giving people some of their lives back, and still letting advertisers run roughshod over their lives. The feds have no interest in our privacy, which is obviously shown by their passage of the bill which will enact the dreaded fascist national ID card, so their real interest is in only getting rid of certain predators. They need to find a way to shuffle out the spyware dudes, as they are starting to cut into the more "legitimate" marketing business, and yet keep enough of a leftover hole open to continue to allow the direct marketers to crap on our privacy.

Posted by: Jeff Spicoli   Posted on: 05/12/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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