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Tag Archives: legislation
Proposed bill would slam pirates, ignore malware
Ars Technica reported yesterday on proposed U.S. legislation, called the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA). One of the primary purposes of this bill is to provide a legal mechanism for interfering with the operation of a website that … Continue reading
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Proposed bill pushes informed consent for P2P sharing
As reported by Ars Technica and others, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-WA) and the rest of the House Energy & Commerce Committee are pushing a bill that requires peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing applications to provide informed consent before installation and before … Continue reading
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Senate hears testimony on spyware
A U.S. Senate hearing was scheduled today to hear testimony on the issue of spyware, with the conversation focused primarily around the “Counter Spy Act of 2007″:http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s110-1625, proposed last year by Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor. The bill provides some very … Continue reading
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StopBadware hosts Spyware Roundtable in DC
Yesterday, StopBadware hosted a Spyware Roundtable conversation in Washington, DC, gathering leaders in spyware research and policy to discuss emerging trends and potential remedies to badware threats. With Federal Trade Commissioner Jon Leibowitz in attendance, much of the conversation centered … Continue reading
More debate over anti-spyware laws
Debate over several proposed U.S. federal anti-spyware laws continued at the Anti-Spyware Coalition conference last week at Harvard. In a panel on public policy moderated by StopBadware’s own John Palfrey, panelists from the Center for Democracy and Technology and the … Continue reading
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Blogging the ASC: Public Policy & Legislation
Continuing with the live-blogging of the Anti-Spyware Coalition conference, here are StopBadware intern Mike Connolly’s notes on the Public Policy discussion panel: John Palfrey, Executive Director of the Berkman Center, is the moderator of this segment. He is joined by … Continue reading
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More on the Spy Act
Yesterday, the blog BoingBoing highlighted an analysis of the Spy Act by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that raises troubling questions about the Spy Act, an anti-spyware bill which recently passed the U.S. House. The EFF’s analysis questions the wording of … Continue reading
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More spyware regulation passes House
On Wednesday, the U.S. House passed a second piece of anti-spyware legislation, known as the Spy Act. Unlike the I-Spy Act which passed the House in late May and which focuses only on ensuring criminal penalties for spyware purveyors, the … Continue reading
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Kudos to Congress: House Passes Anti-Spyware Bill
Earlier this week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation aimed at fighting the fraudulent use of the Internet through spyware and other harmful scams. Spearheaded by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, the Internet Spyware Prevention Act, if signed into law, would … Continue reading
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