SpamCrime: Leveraging The CAN-SPAM Act To Benefit Spam Victims
White Papers The spam is submitted for two purposes, to automatically alert spammers of the recipient's wish not to receive spam and to build a well-documented and historically complete corpus of evidence to support civil and criminal cases against spammers...
[April 27, 2004, 0:05]
Massive Paedophile Operation Leads To Arrests
News Images like these are evidence of the sexual assault and rape of children -- and anyone who buys or downloads them perpetuates the cycle of abuse," he said. Thirteen suspected paedophiles were arrested and 27 computers seized in police dawn raids...
[January 17, 2001, 13:28]
14 Year Sentence For Net Paedophile
News Robert Leonard, 58, appeared before Wolverhampton Crown Court Monday and was found guilty on two counts of rape, one charge of attempted rape and five of indecent assault. Leonard, a former detective constable for Wollaston, Stourbridge, admitted...
[February 26, 2001, 17:12]
Fourteen-year-old Girl Raped By Net Paedophile
News Mark Stephens, of Harlesden, North West London, appeared before Chichester Magistrates Court on Wednesday, charged with the sexual assault of a girl that he made contact with over the Internet. The Net predator pleaded guilty to two counts of...
[March 2, 2001, 7:02]
Naughton: The American Dream Turned Sour, Part III
News A former Marine, Applin is a member of the Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement team (SAFE), an undercover task force that patrols chatrooms looking for criminals. On it they found hundreds of images -- among them, several that the federal grand jury...
[March 21, 2000, 13:56]
Cybersex Sting: Naughton Pleads Guilty
News The Sexual Assault and Exploitation Felony Enforcement Team arrested Naughton on 16 September when he showed up on Santa Monica Pier for a meeting with KrisLA. As a part of the plea agreement, the government agreed to dismiss two other charges...
[March 20, 2000, 9:36]
FBI Nets Scottish Web Paedophile
News In America, federal law enables FBI agents to enter chatrooms posing as children in order to identify and arrest paedophiles before any physical assault has taken place. The agency also gathered emails from the defendant to the boy that contained...
[March 12, 2001, 11:19]
Harsh Sentences Loom For Spammers
News The United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) said on Tuesday that it had sent Congress sentencing guidelines for the Can-Spam Act, short for Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing.
[April 15, 2004, 10:50]
US Mulls Compulsory Tag On 'adult Spam'
News The FTC, which is charged with enforcing the Can-Spam Act, short for Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing, proposed a rule that would require senders of adult-related email to include the phrase, "Sexually-Explicit...
[January 29, 2004, 15:05]
Spammers Flout Law
News Those requirements are part of the Can-Spam Act, short for Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing, the nation's first federal spam law. Only a fraction of the unsolicited email slipping into in-boxes complies with a...
[February 11, 2004, 8:20]
US Anti-spam Law Nears Reality
News The final version of the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act represents a compromise aimed at eliminating the most egregious tactics used by spammers, such as forging email headers and sending...
[December 9, 2003, 8:35]
US Antispam Measure Heads For Legal Status
News President Bush has indicated he will sign the measure, titled the "Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act" (CAN-SPAM). The US House of Representatives has voted overwhelmingly to approve antispam legislation that...
[November 24, 2003, 9:55]
Police Officer Arrested For Child Porn
News The detective constable, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was under investigation for a separate inquiry -- allegedly attempting to protect a colleague from a sex assault allegation -- when the images of children, some as young as two, were...
[January 10, 2001, 11:16]
Chatroom 'victim' To Return Home
News The man is now facing charges of abduction and sexual assault. Greek authorities have seized Baehring's computer and disks from his home, and are investigating a possible connection between the suspect and illegal pornography rings.
[February 5, 2001, 12:23]
Government Puts Onus For Chatroom Policing On ISPs
News In response to the growing number of cases where convictions against Net paedophiles have only been possible after an offline sexual assault has taken place, he admitted "we have almost got to the point where it is too late.
[March 20, 2001, 15:15]
13-year-old Put On Register For Internet Paedophilia
News Contrary to reports, Greater Manchester's Obscene Publications Unit confirms he is the second youngest person to have been put on the sex offenders' register -- the youngest being a 12-year-old convicted in Manchester for indecent sexual assault.
[May 15, 2001, 17:07]
Oxford Scholar Used Net To Lure Schoolboy
News Dr Anthony Gray, 31, appeared before Cardiff Crown Court on Tuesday convicted of two counts of sexual assault. Last week seven Britons were sentenced for their participation in the world's largest Internet child pornography ring dubbed the...
[February 21, 2001, 16:34]
Life Sentence For Net Murderer
News The Home Office has argued that the 1960 Indecency with Children Act is adequate to protect children from indecent assault online. The prosecution also proved that he had been accessing Web sites such as louiscypher.com -- a pornography site...
[November 6, 2000, 15:53]
Judge Calls For Internet Controls On Net Paedophilia
News Dr Anthony Gray, 31, was found guilty of two counts of sexual assault at a six-day trial in February. It's hard to understand how Patrick Green's sentence was reduced when he was guilty for a number of serious sexual offences, as well as the...
[April 6, 2001, 15:07]
