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Spyware Notification Bill Introduced

Posted by michael on from the click-here-to-give-up-first-born-son dept.

cheinonen writes "According to this article at News.com, Rep. Mary Bono has introduced a bill that would require software manufacturers to notify you if they plan to install spyware on your machine. I might not be a legal genius, but won't they just get around this by noting this in the EULA, which many people already do, since you're supposedly required to read and agree to that anyway? Will this bill do anything at all?"

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  1. Bono's Campaign contributions by sirmikester · · Score: 3, Informative

    According to her campaign contributors in 2002, no software corporations have any vested interest in her. I think is a good thing that she's doing something for the consumers for once instead of for the companies/people that support her. On the other hand... SBC did donate quite a bit, maybe she's just trying to cut down their bandwidth costs by cutting down on all of the spyware thats used...

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