DEBRIS.COMgood for a laugh, or possibly an aneurysm

According to Salon, Sen. Ernest “Fritz” Hollings’ (D-S.C.) so-called privacy bill, the “Online Personal Privacy Act” (S. 2201), puts a trojan horse into the camp of privacy advocates — if the bill passes, an army of greasy marketing-company executives will pour out of the statu(t)e, collecting and selling personal information with the full protection of the law.

In A law to protect spyware, Chris Wenham writes:

But Hollings’ bill should outrage Internet users just as much as Brilliant Digital’s [KaZaA-piggybacking] spyware. For while it talks a good game about protecting “sensitive” information, the truth is that it would place a congressional stamp of approval on precisely the kinds of practices that purveyors of spyware are eager to engage in.

(Seen at considered-harmful.org)