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FTC forces Sears, Kmart out of the spyware business
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| When Sears and Kmart offered visitors the chance to earn $10 by participating in
| some research, few realized that they would be sending even secure session
| browsing information to the big retailers. Now, the government has put the
| kibosh on this "blue light special."
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/ftc-forces-sears-kmart-out-of-the-spyware-business.ars
Can Windows be banned/eliminated/fixed too? It's spyware.
Recent:
Has HADOPI Driven the French Insane?
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| I refer, of course, to the infamous HADOPI law, which aims to deprive French
| citizens of their Internet connection purely on the say-so of French media
| companies. Doesn't sound like much ÃgalitÃ, fraternità there, does it? That's
| bad enough; but it seems that this bad legislation is leading to even worse
| knock-on consequences.
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| [...]
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| Now, one aspect not evident from the legalistic mumbo-jumbo above is that
| this spyware may well not support GNU/Linux:
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| The Assembly also postponed a handful of amendments that sought to exempt
| the subscriber if the system is not interoperable with software security,
| with the first assumption that it uses a system that is too old. An "old"
| Windows with expensive software installed on, for example. Or a free
| software ...
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| An amendment sought to nip in the bud the potential for discrimination
| technological and financial background of interoperability ( "the means
| of secure, freely available to consumers, are interoperable). But again,
| it was rejected by the rapporteur implacably Franck Riester and the
| Minister of Culture, Christine Albanel.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/05/has-hadopi-driven-french-insane.html
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