THIS IS SURE TO ENRICH SOME PLAINTIFFS’ LAWYERS: Major companies are using spyware.

UPDATE: Reader Rob Beile emails:

It seems to me the advertiser that doesn’t condone this practice has about ten minutes to incorporate appropriate language into the contracts they sign with their respective advertising firms. Otherwise they lose any credibility when it comes to a claiming they disapprove of the practice. The clock started in about 1998.

Indeed.