B Premium,MVM join:2000-10-28
| Re: FTC Spyware Workshop: 1st Impressions I guess so, although frankly it sounds disingenuous. I mean, many Internet transactions are already taxed (e.g. whenever your vendor has a local presence); and there are already plenty of massive databases of our buying habits -- they're called credit agencies; and as far as I understand (which is not a lot) it's up to the individual vendors to handle the bookkeeping.... It really just sounds as if he was playing to his audience there...
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