Congress wants to pass a Spyware law that you don't want.

Spy Act Only Protects Vendors and Their DRM

"Last week a subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce approved H.R. 964, the Spy Act.

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If the Spy Act become law, hardware, software, and network vendors will be granted carte blanche to use spyware themselves to police their customers' use of their products and services. Incredibly broad exceptions will probably allow even the worst of the adware outfits to operate with legal cover. State attempts to deal with the spyware problem will be pre-empted and enforcement left up almost entirely to the FTC."