This is actually fairly interesting, but makes me go ‘hmmmmm’.
Starting next year, most companies that do business in California face a new law requiring that they tell their customers what personal information they share and with whom they share it. And, for software companies and Web sites using spyware, they’ll need to reveal what information they collect and face penalties if they place spyware without consent.
Taken from this article.
I have a few questions about this. First of all, how are they going to enforce it?
Next up, if a site has to inform me that they are getting ready to install spyware on my computer, or software that performs much like spyware, how much do you think is really going to get installed? Is there going to be a disclaimer on the site someplace? Or maybe a javacript pop-up or something like:
Install Spyware?
So, your sensing that db doesn’t think this is going to help? Yea.
