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U.S. Official Urges Stiffer Anti-Spyware Penalties

Peter Kaplan writes for Reuters:

A member of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Monday urged Congress to give the agency more power to penalize purveyors of hidden spyware.

FTC commissioner Jon Leibowitz said the agency should be given expanded authority to impose civil fines on distributors of the software, which often tracks computer users or triggers pop-up ads. It would be similar to the authority the FTC was given in 2003 to penalize computer spammers.

posted by Fergie @ 11/06/2006 05:54:00 PM