mediajunk

Months after several US states legislated against email spam, now Utah is leading the way in outlawing spyware and adware. Spyware is a software programme that, without the user's knowledge, tracks his online behaviour, while Adware serves pop-up, pop-under or other unsolicited, unwanted forms of advertising at him while he browses the web. ZDnet reports that these and other "pests" have become the new target of legislators in three different states: "Utah apparently became the first state to pass a law regulating spyware and other advertising software, although the bill has yet to be signed by the governor. Lawmakers in Iowa and California also have introduced their own spyware control proposals in the past several weeks." Let's hope the trend spreads worldwide.