think tank wants public help in "SpyWare" fight ?

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status

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20031119/tc_washpost/a58655_2003nov18

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A Washington-based technology think tank wants Internet users to join
its crusade against invasive "spyware" programs that let their authors
eavesdrop on people's online activities.

The Center for Democracy and Technology today urged Americans to
submit details about their encounters with spyware, which often comes
packaged as an unwanted addition to popular downloads like software
for trading music files. The group said it will compile those
experiences and submit them to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as
part of its campaign to spur the federal government to take action
against businesses that do not clearly tell people that they are
opening their personal online lives to strangers.
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Bob Adkins

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20031119/tc_washpost/a58655_2003nov18

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A Washington-based technology think tank wants Internet users to join
its crusade against invasive "spyware" programs that let their authors
eavesdrop on people's online activities.

The Center for Democracy and Technology today urged Americans to
submit details about their encounters with spyware, which often comes
packaged as an unwanted addition to popular downloads like software
for trading music files. The group said it will compile those
experiences and submit them to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as
part of its campaign to spur the federal government to take action
against businesses that do not clearly tell people that they are
opening their personal online lives to strangers.
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Well, I'll tell them to send the perpetrators of that stupid "passiton.com"
browser hijacker to the firing squad. It took me 45 minutes to figure out
how to fix a friend's computer, and I was really ticked off!

Wouldn't it be ironic if the above link loaded you up with spyware.

Bob
 
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