The hearing before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on consumer protection will include government and industry witnesses who will be announced next week, a subcommittee representative said Tuesday. It follows a full-day hearing that the Federal Trade Commission held on Monday. One House bill already introduced by Rep. Mary Bono, R-Calif., would give the FTC the power to ban spyware installed without explicit consent.
A House of Representatives panel is planning to convene a hearing on so-called spyware on April 29, marking the beginning of a process that could lead to legislation targeting the controversial breed of software products that tends to be installed on computers without the owner's explicit consent.
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