FCC Meets To Investigate Cookie Abuse

PreacherTom writes to tell us BusinessWeek is reporting that the FCC and the Center for Digital Democracy plan to meet in order to discuss abuses with regard to cookies. From the article: "Online advertisers have a sweet tooth for cookies. Not the kind you bake, but the digital kind — those tiny files that embed themselves on a PC and keep tabs on what Web sites are visited on which machines. But cookies could have a bad aftertaste for consumers. Privacy advocates say the files are being force fed in large quantities to computer users, and they're demanding that the government put some advertisers on a diet."

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Re:More laws != good laws

['nother poster]

If the U.S. Congress wants me to feel they are earning their pay they need to repeal about 80% of the laws passed in the last 140 years and then sit qietly with their thumbs up their butts leaving me and everyone else alone until the next election. Since that is highly unlikely I doubt anything congress does would make me feel they were earning their pay.