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Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Can I tell you how much I love Eliot Spitzer
Now he's suing spyware vendors. Check it:
New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer accused an Internet advertising company of secretly installing "spyware" on millions of personal computers to deliver pop-up ads. Go Spitzer! He always takes on real creeps, and is a great example of a Give Up AG. Because he's so good at consumer protection and his state is so powerful and populous, effectively every corporation in the country has to abide by New York's rules, by which I mean Spitzer's rules. He provides consumer protection for the whole nation through his actions. Another example of why Blue states rock, when was the last time you heard about a Red state AG doing something good? Instead you hear about them attempting to pry through abortion clinics' records to try to shame the heathens. The last Red state AG I can remember doing anything good at all was the Texas AG suing Sony over the rootkit DRM (which I think Spitzer did too). This is what good AG's should be doing, and Spitzer is by far the best AG in the country. |
4 Comments:
Eliot Spitzer
8:08 PM, April 04, 2006
I love the fact that Spitzer is doing this, but isn't he on shaky legal ground? Are there already laws on the books that make spyware a crime? I thought the internet was pretty much wide open.
If there aren't specific anti-spyware laws right now, promising to pass some would make a nice plank in a Spitzer platform.
--Jeff
10:30 AM, April 05, 2006
We should ask one of our consulting lawyers, but I think he's on strong ground as long as the company sold any of their software or distributed it in NY. Further, you don't really need antispyware laws as long as you've got fraud and damages, which spyware is guilty of without a specific law.
If they did they're subject to NY law, and to having their ass handed to them by Spitzer.
Could you imagine if we had 50 AG's like him?
12:41 PM, April 05, 2006
I can see that lots (or most) spyware companies should be afraid, but I wonder if the act of installing unasked-for software on someone's computer is strictly illegal. Phone-tapping is (or used to be) but I expect those statues don't apply to computers.
I also wonder if the plural abbreviation for Spitzer's job could be written AsG. ["I'd like to order two Whoppers Junior and a small side of fries, please."]
-J
1:37 PM, April 05, 2006
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