CIPPIC, CDT file Spyware Complaints with Competition Bureau, FTC

The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) and the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) today asked the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Canadian Competition Bureau to investigate the business practices of Montreal-based software distributor Integrated Search Technologies and several of its business partners. The filing marks the first time that the Bureau has been asked to investigate a spyware company, and the first time that the FTC has been asked to investigate the practices of a Canadian spyware vendor.

• Joint CIPPIC/CDT Media Release

• CIPPIC's Application to the Competition Bureau and FTC

• CIPPIC's affidavit in support of its Application

• CDT's complaint to the FTC