ActiveAccess Challenges Industry to Fight Malware
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 16 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to the pervasive onslaught of spyware and adware, BIA Information Network, LLC, the desktop application provider, is challenging the software industry to protect consumers and businesses from Internet malfeasance, and adhere to ethical online practices, and issued the following statement:
ActiveAccess Statement on Internet Ethics
As a company that has always offered a spyware-free desktop weather and information alert application, ActiveAccess is committed to ensuring that consumers have the safest, most secure computing experience possible, and challenges other application providers to do the same. Software that performs activities against the will of the user is denying the user a safe and secure computing environment. Such acts as altering operating systems, tracking keyboard functions surreptitiously, and unleashing unwanted pop-up ads is not only an annoyance to individuals, but destructive to business by limiting productivity and exposing companies’ proprietary data. Until our industry holds spyware and adware producers liable, this problem is likely to continue.
For ActiveAccess, there is no gray area when it comes to malware. ActiveAccess does not track users’ surfing habits, change content, install third-party software, or conduct any other illicit activities that plague desktop software, and challenges the industry to adhere to this higher standard of ethical conduct.
Haidee Calore
GM and SVP, ActiveAccess
About ActiveAccess
ActiveAccess® allows broadcasters to extend the reach and value of their on-air content with their own Internet convergence technology. ActiveAccess is equipped with emergency alert graphics, weather warning maps and the ability to display photos, text and video of designated news content on wired and wireless computers. Established in 1998, ActiveAccess has partnered with national media groups, such as ABC, Viacom, Meredith, Gray, Liberty, The New York Times, Freedom, and Nexstar.
