{"id":204,"date":"2004-04-18T22:33:57","date_gmt":"2004-04-18T22:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2004-04-18T22:33:57","modified_gmt":"2004-04-18T22:33:57","slug":"ftc_to_evaluate_spyware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"FTC to evaluate &#8220;spyware&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:3e9cIdmgHKQJ:www.clubpmi.it\/upload\/servizi_marketing\/images\/spyware.jpg\"><br \/>\nOr &#8211; why Windows PC&#8217;s can be unsafe at any speed.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A22514-2004Apr18.html\">Yuki Noguchi writes<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Federal Trade Commission today is hosting a daylong workshop in Washington to discuss the effects of hidden software that may be used to control or spy on a computer without its user&#8217;s knowledge.<br \/>\nSo far most &#8220;spyware&#8221; and &#8220;adware&#8221; programs, often placed on Windows PCs by such downloaded programs as file-sharing programs, appear to have been used for the relatively benign purpose of tracking consumer preferences, said Howard Beales, director of the FTC&#8217;s consumer protection division. The FTC is watching to see if criminals start making widespread use of this technology to steal credit-card and Social Security numbers of unwitting computer users, he said.<br \/>\n&#8220;So far [we] haven&#8217;t thought that it warranted regulation,&#8221; he said.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Some organizations, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmsd.org\/boe\/\">Madison schools<\/a>, only support a computing monoculture &#8211; fertile ground for spyware&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or &#8211; why Windows PC&#8217;s can be unsafe at any speed. Yuki Noguchi writes The Federal Trade Commission today is hosting a daylong workshop in Washington to discuss the effects of hidden software that may be used to control or spy on a computer without its user&#8217;s knowledge. So far most &#8220;spyware&#8221; and &#8220;adware&#8221; programs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}