WP (via BizReport): Anti-Spyware Legislation Could Pass This Year
CNET: Spyware bill moves to Senate
In separate stories, news broke this morning that both the House of Representatives and the Senate are passing anti-spyware committee bills on to their respective full chambers. The senate bill has long been considered a somewhat sane bill, although the House has been wrestling with two main bills, one reasonable and one rather indiscriminate. The House's Energy and Commerce Committee's bill was so broad that it could make basic web metrics tracking illegal, but momentum for that bill was stolen by a Judiciary Committee bill that instead made illegal only that sort of behavior designed to defraud. Now, Texan Republican Energy and Commerce Committee head Joe Barton is agreeing to marry the bills together and send them along to the full House, where after a presumably lopsided positive vote, the combined house bill will play nice with the senate version.
