Wayne Barnes (Texas Wesleyan University - School of Law) has posted Rethinking Spyware: Questioning the Propriety of Contractual Consent to Online Surveillance (UC Davis Law Review, Vol. 39, 2006) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The spyware epidemic has reached new heights on the Internet. Computer users are increasingly burdened with programs they did not knowingly or consciously install, which place strains on their computers' performance, and which also trigger annoying "pop-up" advertisements of ...

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