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Posted by kdawson on Friday March 27, @01:31PM
from the we’ll-come-calling dept.Jane Q. Public writes "At the Federal Trade Commission’s Seattle conference on DRM, FTC Director Mary Engle started off by referencing the Sony rootkit debacle, and said that companies are going to have to get serious about disclosing DRM that may affect the usability of products. She also said that disclosure via the fine print in a EULA is not good enough, and ‘If your advertising giveth and your EULA taketh away, don’t be surprised if the FTC comes calling.’ Transcripts and webcasts are available from the FTC website."
It has been a long time in coming but finally an agency of the US government may be ready to take a look at some of the “business friendly” capers that were ignored/overlooked by the previous administration?
And besides, it may have been difficult for the previous administration – “knee deep” in spying on all its “charges” to reprimand an entity for such a narrow focus.
