Iowa - Computer Spyware Protection Act - H.F.614 Passed, April 2005.
714F, prohibits actions related to the transmission, installation, and use of computer software. The bill prohibits a person, other than the owner or operator of a computer acting with actual knowledge or conscious avoidance of actual knowledge, from transmitting computer software onto the computer and using the software to modify certain settings relating to the computer's access to or use of the internet, collect personally identifiable information through certain intentionally deceptive means, prevent an owner's or an operator's reasonable efforts to block the installation of or disable software through intentionally deceptive means, intentionally misrepresent that computer software will be uninstalled or disabled by an owner's or an operator's action, or through intentionally deceptive means remove, disable, or render inoperative security, antispyware, or antivirus software installed on a computer.
"Computer Spyware Protection Act".
Sec. 4. NEW SECTION. 714F.4 PROHIBITIONS TRANSMISSION AND USE OF SOFTWARE.
It is unlawful for a person who is not an owner or operator of a computer to transmit computer software to such computer knowingly or with conscious avoidance of actual knowledge, and to use such software to do any of the following:
2. Collect, through intentionally deceptive means,
personally identifiable information through any of the following means:
a. The use of a keystroke logging function that records keystrokes made by an owner or operator of a computer and transfers that information from the computer to another person.
b. In a manner that correlates personally identifiable information with data respecting all or substantially all of the websites visited by an owner or operator, other than websites operated by the person collecting such information.
3. Prevent, through intentionally deceptive means, an owner's or an operator's reasonable efforts to block the installation of, or to disable, computer software by causing computer software that the owner or operator has properly removed or disabled to automatically reinstall or reactivate on the computer.
5. Through intentionally deceptive means, remove, disable, or render inoperative security, antispyware, or antivirus computer software installed on an owner's or an operator's computer.
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