California Sets Fines for Spyware

aj50 writes "The BBC has the story that California is introducing new laws to help eradicate spyware. The bill bans the installation of software that can be used to take over another computer and allows customers to seek $1000 in damages if they've fallen victim to this kind of malicious software. Can this really help cut down spyware or will it just be another fatally flawed piece of legislation?"

Comments

Just assume that it's bad legistlation.

[Simonetta]

Given the absolute corrupt nature of the American and especially the California legislative process, it must be assumed that any bill (the USA term for proposed law) goes through a strict corporate analysis and review and anything even remotely critical or of possible concern to the benefit of the corporate structure will be removed or neutralized by admendment.
If you can accept this idea then you can realize that it is now impossible to get any progressive or consumer friendly bills passed into law or signed uber-menschen killer robot corporate-controlled governor of California.
Forget about using the legislative branch to get laws passed to protect your interests. In the new, corporate-controlled America, it's just not going to happen.
Consumer protection will only come now from concerned and active private groups. And more often than not, these groups and their activities that go against any corporate interests will be declared illegal by corporate-controlled legislatures and the people involved will be labeled 'terrorists' by the corporate-controlled media.
Just get used to it because it is the way that it is going to be. Here's a simple rule-of-thumb for cutting through the Fox News BS about who is and who isn't a terrorist: people who do things that result in the murder of other random innocent people are real terrorists. People that just make work for corporate lawyers through meaningless symbolic protests are not.
Just remember the old Soviet expression: "Pravda nyet Isvestia, Isvestia nyet Pravda" (Truth is not News, News is not Truth)[ - a pun on the two top Soviet newspapers of the cold war era].