FTC Spyware Workshop - April 19th, 2004

Panel One: Defining, Understanding and Disseminating Spyware

FTC Host

• Ed Black, President & Chief Executive Officer
  Computer & Communications Industry Association
  
• Mark Bohannon, General Counsel & Senior Vice President Public Policy
  Software & Information Industry Association
  
• Marty Lafferty, Chief Executive Officer
  Distributed Computing Industry Association
  
• Avi Naider, President & Chief Executive Officer
  WhenU.com, Inc.
  
• Ari Schwartz, Associate Director
  Center for Democracy and Technology
  Ari was the only one to mention "affiliates" but I don't think anyone else understood the responsibility of companies to monitor how affiliates are distributing or deploying their products.
  
  Mark Bohannon actually came out against any requirements for an UnInstall program. His reasoning behind this position was programs like NetNanny that safe guard kids on the internet.
  Apparently we need to change the wording of S.2145 Sec. 3(c2) so it now says "capable of being removed completely by the same user who installed said program using normal procedures..."