Previous
The Effective Control Of Unsolicited Commercial Email
White Papers For Internet Service Providers ("ISPs") especially, the bandwidth commandeered by spamming and the resultant slowdowns in service represent an infrastructure expense of increasing dimensions. At the same time, the law of the Internet remains in...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Australia To Ban Spam
News The federal government intends to introduce legislation later this year that will ban unsolicited commercial email, the minister for communications and information technology, senator Richard Alston announced today.
[July 23, 2003, 10:03]
FTC Finally Realises That Spammers Lie
News The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) study, False Claims in Spam, which analysed 1,000 pieces of unsolicited commercial email gleaned from FTC databases and government officials' in-boxes, found that 66 percent of spam contains some type of...
[April 30, 2003, 10:48]
Spam Surge 'turning Britain Into E-pariah'
News The government's failure to give businesses protection from unsolicited commercial email risks turning the UK into an Internet outcast, according to one of its political opponents. The government brought in legislation last year that made it...
[May 28, 2004, 17:05]
'Spam' Label Makes Companies Wary Of Email Marketing
Talkback Their effort to redefine spam as "unsolicited, bulk, untargeted commercial email", is dishonest. I do not want to be a target for unsolicited, bulk, _targeted_ commercial email either, thank you very much.
[August 30, 2003, 22:14]
UK Law Smashes Consumer Spam
News It will still be legal for a company to send unsolicited commercial messages to corporate email addresses. The British government introduced legislation on Thursday that aims to protect Internet and mobile phone users from unsolicited commercial...
[September 18, 2003, 14:45]
California Juggles Anti-spam Bills
News The bills have wound their way through the California legislature as lawmakers nationwide come under increasing pressure to criminalise the sending of unsolicited commercial email. Microsoft doesn't want to ban spam; it wants to decide what's...
[July 3, 2003, 11:49]
'Do-not-spam' May Not Pass Go
News The do-not-call plan's popularity has fuelled demand for a similar registry for unsolicited commercial email. But those same lawyers also said telemarketers are fighting an uphill constitutional battle, particularly in the wake of recent decisions...
[July 30, 2003, 11:30]
Spam-maker Sues SpamArrest
News Brian Cartmell, president and chief executive of SpamArrest, said in a statement: "Spam is a common term describing unsolicited commercial email (UCE) and even Hormel says on its own Web site: 'We do not object to use of this slang term to...
[July 3, 2003, 14:54]
OECD Guidelines Target International Spam
News But in calling on the organisation's 30 member states -- which include the United States, Japan, Germany and the UK -- to cooperate in the fight against international fraud, they clearly allude to the problem of unsolicited commercial email.
[June 18, 2003, 7:41]
Spam Manufacturer Continues Brand Defence Campaign
News Seattle attorney Derek A Newman added: "Spam has become ubiquitous throughout the world to describe unsolicited commercial email. Spiced-ham maker Hormel has announced a massive UK advertising campaign in what may be seen as an attempt to wrestle...
[November 2, 2004, 15:04]
Spammers Target IM Accounts
News Unsolicited commercial appeals on instant messenger are still uncommon, but they are becoming prevalent enough that some IM fans worry their networks are vulnerable to the seemingly unstoppable marketing deluge that has long flooded email in-boxes.
[March 12, 2002, 12:37]
US Ruling Boosts Spam Fight
News Ray Everett-Church, a privacy consultant at ePrivacyGroup.com and a board member of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email, applauded the decision. A federal appeals court said on Friday that a law restricting junk faxes was...
[March 24, 2003, 11:11]
Spammers Face Lawsuits And Jail
News While many states have enacted laws restricting unsolicited commercial email, the US Congress never has. The CSA joins a crowded field of at least eight other proposals, each taking a different approach to the growing problem of unsolicited bulk...
[June 20, 2003, 9:27]
E-tailers Risk Breaking New Law
News However, the regulations simply state that the government "believes that existing industry self-regulation and codes of conduct already provide recipients of unsolicited commercial communication.with effective protection.
[August 21, 2002, 13:32]
SMS Marketing May Be Cut Off By New E-commerce Law
News Unsolicited text message marketing seems set to die an early death under the impending Electronic Communications Directive due to be enforced later this year, which will make it obligatory for all companies to include their registration and...
[August 24, 2001, 13:00]
Spam: An Overview Of Issues Concerning Commercial Electronic Mail
White Papers Spam, also called unsolicited commercial email (UCE) or "junk email," aggravates many computer users. Not only can spam be a nuisance, but its cost may be passed on to consumers through higher charges from Internet service providers who must...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Spammers Flout Law
News Only a fraction of the unsolicited email slipping into in-boxes complies with a federal anti-spam law, according to new research. Only 3 percent of bulk commercial email includes a valid US postal mail address and a valid link to opt out of future...
[February 11, 2004, 8:20]
SHRED: Spam Harassment Reduction Via Economic Disincentives
White Papers Spam (often defined as unsolicited commercial email) has grown dramatically in the last few years with a significant impact on users' productivity, increase in network traffic, wastage of storage, and useful email being ignored as a result of user...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Spam, Its Not Just For Breakfast
White Papers It is also called unsolicited commercial email (UCE). The contents of spam email are usually related to some commercial advertisement for (often dubious) products or services. Spam is the term applied to a single copy of an email that has been mass...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
