| Rep. Clifford Stearns????? Source: Wired News Michael Grebb 02:00 AM Mar. 10, 2005 PT
»www.wired.com/news/politics/0,12···ophead_1
In February, Rep. Clifford Stearns (R-Florida), chairman of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection, attached an amendment that would exempt software cookies, including third-party cookies, from the spyware definitions covered by the bill.
That amendment also exempted embedded ads on web pages from the bill's requirement that online ads (often pop-ups that appear without a site's sanction) include identifying information so consumers can find and remove the software causing them.
On Wednesday, Stearns introduced a new amendment that would create another exemption, this time for web "beacons" (HTML and JavaScript that facilitate the ordinary construction of web pages but don't monitor consumers' behavior or gather information about those users). Such code wouldn't be considered spyware under the bill's new provisions. Hmm Web Beacons?
Now where did I hear that term before?
Maybe Yahoo?
»privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/bea···ils.html
Now explain to me why SBC throws 8 grand at Cliff for the 2004 election as well as taken very good care of Cliff in the past.
»www.opensecrets.org/races/contri···pecial=N
SBC doesn't even a a presence in FL.
Yahoo has thrown some money at Cliff in the past.
»www.opensecrets.org/pacs/memberp···cle=2004
Hey I am not damning Cliff outright, just asking some questions. |
 sivranBack to Opera againPremium
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kudos:1 | Sounds logical--cookies and so-called "web beacons" are not spyware nor are they harmful in any way. Ads on webpages are also not spyware. Thus, these things do not belong in an anti-spyware bill.
Hmmmm.... |
