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Spyware bill raises cookie fears
« on: February 07, 2005, 10:45:57 AM »

by Stefanie Olsen

Web marketers and Sesame St character worried..

US lawmakers are considering changes to an anti-spyware bill to make sure "cookies" are not on its list of unlawful technologies, in a potential boon to online marketers.

A spokeswoman for House member Mary Bono, the California Republican who drafted the revised Spy Act in January, said that concerns have been raised over language in the bill targeting cookies, which are tiny tags used by sites to keep track of passwords or analyse internet behaviour.

Read more here: http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39127596,00.htm
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