To the United States, the Room of the representatives comes to adopt with the quasi-unanimity a supposed law to prohibit the spywares, this software spies installed on the computers which with knowledge of the user records data to transmit them to a third with an aim marketing. In general, these programs fit at the same time as of the free software suggested in remote loading on Internet. Their shippers risk heavy fines being able to go until to several million dollars.

After the Edge Act Spam, a law aiming at removing the spams, elected officials American attack from now on with the spywares. The Room of the representatives adopted by 399 votes against the Spy Act, a supposed law to prohibit the spywares. Like the cookies, the spyware is a program installed with the knowledge of the user, working in background to remain discrete. But whereas the cookie is a small textual file which traces the preferences of the Net surfers having visited a site, the spyware is a true software of monitoring which personal data-gathering and transmits them to a waiter, where these data are stored with an aim marketing. In general, the Net surfers who download free software on the Net, are exposed to the spywares.

Very concrete, Spy Act adopted by the Room of the representatives aims to make illegal any software spy installed without the assent of the users and to oblige the originators of this type of programs to detail their operation like the made use of the collected data. The text also prohibits to reallocate the banner page on which navigators Internet connect themselves to starting, to record type them on the keyboard to retain the passwords and to open publicities which cannot be closed without starting again the navigator.