Comments on: Anti-spyware bill heads for House

Measure to keep an eye on spyware takes a step closer to becoming law. Tech industry groups aren't too happy.

[anthonycea]

All transmissions of Page Views to third parties should be outlawed!

Microsoft needs to wake up and look at this as an opportuntiy for them to build security into the next OS. Internet users are tired of this ADWARE/SPYWARE ********. If M$ is serious about computing they will address they privacy concerns of their customers and quit beating around the bush.

All page view transmissions to THIRD PARTIES should be outlawed, toolbars are marketing gimmicks and it is about time the tech companies realize that the trend is agianst their abusive information data mining programs and profile building privacy invading crap.

http://www.searchwars.squarespace.com/display/ShowPage?moduleId=25147

See the above page to look at Senator Conrad Burns proposed spyware bill, you need to get in line and support this bill, contact his office today.

H.R. 2929 - "dense regulations"

I note the article written by Declan McCullagh references "21 pages of dense regulations" included in the Spy Act, which is the subject of the article entitled "Anti-spyware bill heads for House," dated June 24, 2004.

My attempts at procuring a copy of the dense regulations have been unsuccessful. The versions of H.R. 2929 that I have accessed do not contain 21 pages of regulations. I am hoping you can provide me with additional information with regard to where you found a copy of H.R. 2929 that contained the regulations. I would appreciate any information or assistance that you can offer. Thank you!

m. garner

It's About Time

It's about time that the constitutional ban on household searches without a warrant be extended to the computer that is in my house.

Fundementally, software companies have been breaking the law for the last ten years for their own benefit. Arguments that intrusive software benefits the consumer is a smoke screen for their real purposes and as deceitful as the software that plagues our PERSONAL computers.