{"id":547300,"date":"2005-11-18T08:27:32","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T08:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547300-web-giants-join-forces-against-spyware.html"},"modified":"2005-11-18T08:27:32","modified_gmt":"2005-11-18T08:27:32","slug":"web-giants-join-forces-against-spyware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547300-web-giants-join-forces-against-spyware.html","title":{"rendered":"Web giants join forces against spyware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Several large Internet companies have grouped together to launch a new program to certify downloads so consumers can get friendly and non-invasive software, according to media reports. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Backed by AOL, CA, CNET Networks, Verizon and Yahoo, the Trusted Download Program is set to begin trials early next year, when the Internet partners will get access to a list of applications certified by TRUSTe. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The Trusted Download Program will not blacklist adware or spyware. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Instead, makers of the software have to communicate what their product does and allow the user to consent prior to download and again when installing the software. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><i><font size=\"2\">INet-Bridge<\/font><\/i> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several large Internet companies have grouped together to launch a new program to certify downloads so consumers can get friendly and non-invasive software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}