Spy
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Re: How would you describe term "SpyWare" ?
said by TexasGuy  :Is spyware any application that sends statistics of marketing purposes or only applications that secretly do that? Does it count if an application in question truthfully informs you that data is being collected and how? Where is that border line where an application becomes a spyware? Only applications that do it without your consent or awareness.
If the application informs you what it's doing and it does exactly that and you consented to it then it should not be considered spyware in my opinion.
Once the application is doing something without your knowledge or consent, I consider it spyware. |
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TexasGuy
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| said by Spy :said by TexasGuy :Is spyware any application that sends statistics of marketing purposes or only applications that secretly do that? Does it count if an application in question truthfully informs you that data is being collected and how? Where is that border line where an application becomes a spyware? Only applications that do it without your consent or awareness. If the application informs you what it's doing and it does exactly that and you consented to it then it should not be considered spyware in my opinion. Once the application is doing something without your knowledge or consent, I consider it spyware. What if the real description is buried deep in the EULA and no sain person would would read the crap attentively though in a perfect world they should.
Thus, the customers then base their knowledge about functionality and features of a program only from what they heard from other sources.
Therefore, should the program wave a red flag that says I am a spyware or is it ok to mention it on line 5000 of the EULA?
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Spy
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NE | If it's in the EULA on line 5000 and it does explain what it's doing to you, I would say it's not spyware. Many people don't read the entire EULA but somebody does. Unfortunately, that's the way it is. |
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SnowyOne
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said by TexasGuy :Therefore, should the program wave a red flag that says I am a spyware or is it ok to mention it on line 5000 of the EULA? Can a program be covertly overt?
If it's willing to put "I am a spyware" anywhere in it's EULA who am I to argue it?  |
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