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Australia Says No To Spyware

Posted by Zonk on from the sanity-down-under dept.

PrivateDonut writes "Australian parliament introduced a bill on Thursday that would 'make it illegal for anyone to install a program without informed approval and attract a fine of $10,000.' Is this doomed to fail as many other anti-spam/spyware bills have failed? Or has Australia finally hit the mark?"

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  1. YAY! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Ammazing! Let's hope that this works.

  2. The Australian parliament asks..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...that to help them with the task of collecting evidence that you install this helpful program which automatically remembers login IDs/passwords and fills in online forms with just one click.

  3. Re:So? ...without international agreement? by Foolhardy · · Score: 2, Funny
    1) MS Word is a word processor, not an operating system;
    Yeah, everyone knows that Emacs is the only proper word processing operating system.