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U.S. moves towards anti-spyware law
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2004-06-18

A U.S. House subcommittee on Thursday approved what would be the first federal law to specifically target Internet spyware.

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Anonymous (1 replies)
If I am not mistaken lots of spyware/adware companies already get permission. The problem is and will continue to be that they are telling the user about it in the EULA of a software program that the user INTENDED to load on their machine in the first place.

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