U.S. federal court allowed CyberSpy Software to sell its spyware legally

This is bound to cause out rage. It has here, how can this be allowed to happen. Its like allowing spam to be acceptable. Spyware is wrong simple as that plus its highly annoying.

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According to the recent report of the PC World the U.S. federal court has allowed a Florida company that sells a spyware program to continue its business on condition it changes advertising pitches that emphasize the product's clandestine nature. Since November 6, 2008 CyberSpy Software has been unable to sell its RemoteSpy application on the score of the injection granted by the court after a complaint by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

CyberSpy marketed RemoteSpy by giving detailed instructions on how to install the program on computers and surreptitiously collect data, alleged by the FTC. In accordance with the court determination CyberSpy cannot formulate its offering to the customers as ‘the program can be secretly installed or that keyloggers can be passed on as innocuous programs.’ As for CyberSpy, in an earlier court filing the company claimed that it warned users against monitoring computers without a person's consent as long as it is illegal with the terms stipulated in the software's license agreement. The company alleges that RemoteSpy is intended for legal uses such as monitoring children's Internet browsing.

While under the court’s permission CyberSpy Software run by one person, Tracer R. Spence, goes on its activity the company’s heavy emphasis on spying and how to hide the program raised concerns from the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a Washington, D.C. based civil liberties advocacy group, which filed a complaint with the FTC in March. U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell underlined the danger of CyberSpy‘s promotional and instructional material focused on the ability of RemoteSpy to invade the privacy of an unsuspecting victim.