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  From: <dfk2102@columbia.edu>
  To  : <CPC@emoglen.law.columbia.edu>
  Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 20:39:50 -0400

Microsoft 'helping' states write anti-spyware legislation

It seems that Microsoft is in the business of 'helping' states craft
anti-spyware legislation--with a convenient carveout for providers
whose services users have 'accepted.' The carveout allows them
access to user harddrives for “detection or prevention of []
unauthorized use of or fraudulent or other illegal activities in
connection with a network, service, or computer software, including
scanning for and removing computer software prescribed under this
act.”

This pernicious piece of legislation goes right to the heart of our
discussion of the struggle over who controls user's own
computers--and provides further evidence of Microsoft's strategy of
pursuing legal as well as technological means of controlling how
people interact with their computers.

http://www.okgazette.com/news/templates/cover.asp?articleid=423

Let's hope the news exposure will prompt some major revisions before
enactment.

Derek

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