{"id":593,"date":"2004-04-19T01:35:40","date_gmt":"2004-04-18T18:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=593"},"modified":"2006-08-25T01:36:34","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T18:36:34","slug":"ftc-officials-blast-spyware-measures-tech-news-on-zdnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/ftc-officials-blast-spyware-measures-tech-news-on-zdnet\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC officials blast spyware measures | Tech News on ZDNet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.com\/2100-3513_22-5202016.html?tag=adnews\">FTC officials blast spyware measures | Tech News on ZDNet<\/a><br \/>\n<em>For More info click on above link<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two Federal Trade Commission officials ignited a political firestorm on Thursday by criticizing proposed laws targeting spyware and suggesting that the measures might harm legitimate software products, too.<\/p>\n<p>During an appearance before a House of Representatives panel, FTC Commissioner Mozelle Thompson said the measures were the wrong approach to spyware and adware. &#8220;I do not believe legislation is the answer at this time,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Instead, we should give industry the time to respond&#8230;Self-regulation combined with enforcement of existing laws might be the best way to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FTC officials blast spyware measures | Tech News on ZDNet For More info click on above link Two Federal Trade Commission officials ignited a political firestorm on Thursday by criticizing proposed laws targeting spyware and suggesting that the measures might harm legitimate software products, too. During an appearance before a House of Representatives panel, FTC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-government","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}