Today, the Center for Democracy and Technology released Ghosts in Our Machines: Background and Policy Proposals on the “Spyware” Problem:
Many of these applications represent a significant privacy threat, but in our view the larger concerns raised by these programs are transparency and user control, problems sometimes overlooked in discussions about the issue and to a certain extent obscured by the term “spyware” itself.
CDT is also seeking stories about experiences with spyware:Join CDT’s Campaign Against “Spyware”
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