Spyware Defintion

What is spyware?

"Software that gathers information about a user as he or she navigates around the Web, spyware is intended to track surfing habits in order to build marketing profiles. .... [and] information about your habits will be transmitted back to the company's Web site-but not information specifically about you." Although marketing spyware is not illegal, the way in which it works can be used as one technique for internet surveillance.


As Defined by --> http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Internet_surveillance