Last year, the House approved a spyware bill but the Senate did not act on it, but recently some states and the federal government have sued alleged spyware makers. The just House voted 395 to 1 to impose jail sentences of up to 2 years. Violators could face fines up to $3 million per incident. So the Senate has 2 anti-spyware bills to choose from according to MarketingVox.

“Let the Senate figure it out” seems to have been the approach of the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday when it approved two anti-spyware bills… (Here is one of the proposed bills) H.R. 29, sponsored by Rep. Mary Bono, R-Calif., would create complex regulations overseen by the FTC, and would punish offenders with fines for browser hijacking, modifying bookmarks, collecting personal information without permission and disabling security mechanisms – up to $3 million per incident…”

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