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InternetNews January 6, 2005 Roy Mark	House Revives Anti-Spyware Bill California Republican Mary Bono predicts her legislation will pass both the House and Senate in 2005.
InternetNews February 16, 2005 Roy Mark	House Cuts Cookies From SPY ACT With little fuss and no debate, a House subcommittee today amended an anti-spyware bill to clarify that the legislation does not cover third-party cookies.
InternetNews March 9, 2005 Roy Mark	House Continues Anti-Spyware Push Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously approves legislation, setting stage for full House vote to legislate spyware.
InternetNews October 6, 2004 Roy Mark	House Passes Anti-Spyware Bill The U.S. House of Representatives voted 399-1 Tuesday night to pass legislation prohibiting unfair or deceptive practices related to spyware.
InternetNews June 7, 2007 Roy Mark	House Approves Second Anti-Spyware Bill The U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday endorsed its second anti-spyware bill in less than a month. Both bills target unauthorized downloads but take significantly different approaches.
InternetNews October 8, 2004	House Toughens Spyware Penalties For the second time in three days, the U.S. House of Representatives has passed an anti-spyware bill, this time adding criminal penalties to tough civil provisions of legislation passed on Tuesday.
InternetNews June 24, 2004 Roy Mark	Anti-Spyware Bill Clears Committee Hurdle Bill sponsors amend anti-spyware measure to cure Internet 'cancer.'
InternetNews May 23, 2005 Roy Mark	House Approves Anti-Spyware Bills The U.S. House plunged ahead in its anti-spyware campaign, passing two different bills targeting unfair or deceptive practices related to spyware.
InternetNews June 17, 2004 Roy Mark	House Panel OKs Anti-Spyware Bill Legislation wants harsh penalties to combat use of tracking software.
InternetNews March 15, 2007 Roy Mark	A Charming Third Time For Anti-Spyware Bill? House panel backs Spy Act again despite two rejections from Senate. H.R. 964 would require an opt-in, notice and consent regime for adware or spyware that collects personally identifiable information from consumers.
InternetNews November 18, 2005 Roy Mark	A Senate Shot at Anti-Spyware Anti-spyware legislation found new life in the U.S. Senate Thursday when the Commerce Committee approved the SPY BLOCK Act, which outlaws a number of activities associated with unauthorized downloads.
InternetNews May 22, 2007 Roy Mark	House Passes Anti-Spyware Legislation I SPY Act earns third approval from House. Will Senate reject legislation for third time?
InternetNews May 2, 2007 Roy Mark	I-SPY a Green Light in The House Judiciary Committee sends anti-spyware bill targeting illegal downloads to House floor.
InternetNews March 21, 2005 Roy Mark	Anti-Spyware Bill Introduced in Senate Co-authors of CAN-SPAM back new legislation aimed at surreptitiously downloaded and installed software.
InternetNews November 5, 2004 Roy Mark	FTC to Congress: Lose the Anti-Spyware Plans The Federal Trade Commission again warned Congress today that anti-spyware legislation is unnecessary with the existence of adequate fraud laws to contend with spyware perpetrators.
InternetNews September 22, 2004 Roy Mark	Senate Panel Approves Anti-Spyware Bill Anti-spyware legislation took a major step forward Wednesday when the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee approved a bill to outlaw spyware that is loaded on a computer without the user's consent.
InternetNews May 12, 2005 Roy Mark	New Bill Targets Spyware Profits U.S. Senator George Allen says the federal government already has authority to prosecute spyware purveyors.
InternetNews April 30, 2004 Roy Mark	Lawmakers Vow Tough Spyware Laws Commerce chairman says consumers are 'outraged' and promises legislative action by end of year.
InternetNews May 11, 2005 Roy Mark	Adware Called Too Cozy With Spyware The Center for Democracy and Technology says complex relationships allow responsible parties to dodge liability even if Congress passes an anti-spyware bill.
InternetNews February 27, 2004 Roy Mark	Lawmakers Launch New Anti-Spyware Bill Two champions of last year's Can Spam Act have introduced legislation in Congress to outlaw invasive software such as spyware and adware from being secretly installed on computers.
InternetNews May 20, 2005 Roy Mark	House Panel Supports I-SPY Act Spyware vendors are targeted with tougher criminal penalties under legislation approved by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee.
InternetNews September 8, 2004 Roy Mark	House Panel Gets Tough on Spyware, P2P Piracy Judiciary Committee wants to slam prison door on peer-to-peer music swappers, spyware purveyors.
InternetNews January 4, 2005 Roy Mark	FTC Wins Round Against 'Spyware' King Deal with trade commission prevents Sanford Wallace from distributing or publishing spyware code until federal case is settled.
InternetNews May 14, 2004 Roy Mark	Spyware Solutions Not So Simple Proposed bills may create more problems than they solve according to VeriSign and other industry leaders.
InternetNews May 27, 2004 Roy Mark	Yahoo! Beta Testing Anti-Spyware Tool New toolbar plug-in aims to give consumers 'transparency' about what programs are actually on a user's computer.
InternetNews June 8, 2005 Roy Mark	Bad Actors Safe Under Spyware Legislation? Congress should do less, rather than more, when it comes to federal anti-spyware bills.
InternetNews October 8, 2004 Roy Mark	FTC Pursues Former Spam King in Court The Federal Trade Commission filed its first spyware case Thursday against the man once known as the undisputed king of spam and the various companies he controls.
InternetNews May 4, 2006 Roy Mark	Spyware Hustler Hit With $4M Penalty Justice was finally downloaded Thursday on Sanford Wallace, a notorious spammer of the 1990s who moved on to illegal spyware operations that installed adware, spyware and other unsolicited software programs on users' computers.
PC World July 2004 Tom Spring	Striking Back at Spyware States, feds consider regulating intrusive software.
InternetNews April 19, 2004 Roy Mark	FTC Urges Industry Solutions to Spyware Officials say better tools and intense consumer education are key to protecting users from invasive programs.
InternetNews November 3, 2004 Roy Mark	Post Election, Tech Issues Await Congress Is Voice Over IP an interstate service and exempt from state and local regulation and tariffs?... Legislation is still pending on reviving the expired Internet access tax moratorium and spyware... etc.
PC World December 2004 Andrew Brandt	Poor Defenders Some anti-spyware companies use confusing ads, and our tests show their $20-$60 products are less effective than free competitors.
InternetNews February 16, 2007 Roy Mark	DirectRevenue to Pay Back 'Spyware' Gains Adware distributor DirectRevenue today settled Federal Trade Commission charges of unfair and deceptive trade practices of installing unwanted and unsolicited spyware unto consumers' computers.
InternetNews March 26, 2004 Janis Mara	Gates Weighs In On Spyware Issue Microsoft's chairman says 'parasitic' software is turning the Internet into a billboard.
InternetNews November 6, 2006 Roy Mark	FTC Mulling Next-Gen Tech, Policy Three days of hearings open to consider future Internet regulatory challenges.
InternetNews January 31, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Security Vendors Team Against Spyware McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro, ICSA Labs and Thomson Cyber Security Labs plan to create a standard method for evaluating spyware products.
InternetNews September 30, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Calif. Gov. Signs Anti-Spyware Bill The bill privacy groups called 'unenforceable' is now state law.
InternetNews October 1, 2004 Erin Joyce	A Hobbled Anti-Spyware Law California has its first anti-spyware bill, but it doesn't do enough to terminate the growing use of spyware that logs your moves online. And don't expect to see much stronger legislation in Congress.
U.S. CPSC December 19, 2007	US Consumer Product Safety Commission Acting Chairman Nancy Nord Applauds House Vote on Landmark Consumer Product Safety Legislation The members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are congratulated for their leadership and hard work on significant product safety legislation.
InternetNews September 8, 2004 Roy Mark	Time Running Out on Fed's Tech Agenda CAN-SPAM and nanotech funding aside, the tech industry has seen little legislative success in a Congress consumed with matters of war and national security.
InternetNews February 9, 2007 Roy Mark	House Delivers Package of Privacy Bills Members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee introduced a package of bills Thursday evening aimed at identity theft, pretexting, data security and breach notifications.
InternetNews May 5, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	Stolen Fighter Plane Plans Still on P2P Network Industry, advocacy groups warn of continuing vulnerabilities as House subcommittee considers pair of information-security bills.
InternetNews June 30, 2004 Roy Mark	Spyware Sneaking into the Enterprise Not just for consumers anymore, invasive programs are finding comfort in the corporate realm and leaving more than unwanted ads in their wake.
InternetNews September 16, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Calif. Spyware Bill: 'Worse Than Nothing' Privacy groups urge Governor Schwarzenegger to veto a bill they call 'unenforceable.'
InternetNews March 8, 2006 Roy Mark	Second Phone Data Privacy Bill Approved Targeting both telephone data brokers and telecoms, a House panel today approved legislation that bans the sale, lease or rental of confidential telephone records.
InternetNews July 12, 2005 Jim Wagner	Tech Coalition Seeking Input to Define Spyware The Anti-Spyware Coalition wants input on its definition before working on best practices for the industry and end users.
InternetNews June 18, 2009 Kenneth Corbin	House Leaders Moving Closer to Privacy Bill Joint subcommittee hearing continues probe of behavioral targeting, with legislation expected by year's end.
InternetNews November 3, 2006 Roy Mark	Zango Settles FTC Adware Charges The controversial adware distributor agrees to pay $3 million and provide consumer consent notices.
InternetNews March 9, 2007 Roy Mark	Bill Would Protect Call Records From Snoopers New legislation would have FTC write rules for stricter security standards for consumers' personal phone records.
InternetNews November 22, 2006 Roy Mark	Spyware Operators Settles With FTC Two notorious spyware operators settled charges Tuesday with the Federal Trade Commission.