{"id":134,"date":"2005-11-21T13:33:07","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T21:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2005-11-21T13:33:21","modified_gmt":"2005-11-21T21:33:21","slug":"spyblock-heads-to-senate-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2005\/11\/21\/spyblock-heads-to-senate-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"SPYBLOCK Heads to Senate Floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <strong>PCWorld.com<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/resource\/article\/0,aid,123626,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp\">Spyware Foes Push New Law<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON &#8212; A Senate committee has approved a bill that would outlaw the practice of remotely installing software that collects a computer users&#8217; personal information without consent.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to prohibiting spyware, the Software Principles Yielding Better Levels of Consumer Knowledge (SPYBLOCK) Act would also outlaw the installation of adware programs without a computer user&#8217;s permission. The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee approved the bill Thursday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Senate committee has approved a bill that would outlaw the practice of remotely installing software that collects a computer users&#8217; personal information without consent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-cyberspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}