Privacy watchdog - StopBadware.org is an academic project supported by Sun and Google among others that aims to establish a neighbourhood watch-style scheme to put pressure on purveyors of unsavoury programs. It has classified AOL's software as potentially damaging badware.

Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is earmarking Y300 million in its 2007 budget to produce what the Asahi Shimbun terms a lie-detector for online information.

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