 wmcconaBill
join:2002-01-18
Woodbury, NJ | reply to eburger68
Re: A Guide to Spyware Comments Filed w/ the FTC Eric,
Very interesting reading, Do you think that anything substantial will come about as a result of this workshop?
BTW, I posted a link to your Comments to the FTC Workshop in the Comcast Security forum.
Thanks for keeping us informed,
Bill
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| Bill:
You asked:
said by wmccona:
Do you think that anything substantial will come about as a result of this workshop?
Unfortunately, I don't think anything immediate will come out of this meeting -- at least not in the way of regulation.
That's not to say this workshop isn't important, though -- it is. This workshop will get a lot of attention from folks in Washington, and I think it has the potential to be agenda-setting to some extent. In other words, it will serve as a reference point for the discussion of spyware in Washington for some time to come. That's why it's important that folks make their voice heard and demonstrate to Washington that this is a serious problem that's affecting a lot of people.
As I wrote the other night...
»What's the *motivation* for hijack-ware?
...the spyware problem has the potential to get a lot worse (incredible as that may sound) because this pernicious software technology is starting to get the attention, support, and funding of "mainstream" interests -- including advertisers and venture capitalists.
We have the opportunity to throw a roadblock in the way of this growing part of the advertising business. If we fail to stop it now, your experience of the internet could be a lot different.
By the way, I've set up a page on my web site about the FTC Spyware Workshop. It contains links to the key pages at the FTC, links to my own comments and documents, and links to all the news stories I've been able to find about the spate of new anti-spyware legislation at the state and federal level:
»www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/ftc-spyware.htm
Best,
Eric L. Howes |
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 dpPremium,MVM
join:2000-12-08
Greensburg, PA
kudos:7 | Thanks for all the good information and links Eric. |
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