DMA publishes 'quick-glance' guide to CAN SPAM Act.
NEW YORK -- The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) releases a new quick-glance reference guide designed to empower marketers and consumers alike to make sense of the CAN SPAM Act, the first national anti-spam law in the United States. The guide, titled "The CAN SPAM Act of 2003: What to...

FTC requires warning label on sexually explicit E-mail.
WASHINGTON -- As an added measure for cracking down on the perpetual spam problem, particularly pornographic E-mail, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has adopted a new rule addressing the issue. Beginning on May 19, 2004, spam that includes sexually oriented material must contain the warning "SEXUALLY-EXPLICIT:" in the subject...

Can-Spam Act of 2003: how to spam legally.
ABSTRACT With the growing use of the Internet for unsolicited commercial electronic mail (spam), many individuals and businesses are complaining about the time and effort necessary to delete such material from personal and business computers. Although filtering has been tried, it seems the senders of such unwanted...

Congress urges FTC to crack down on spammers.
According to the traditional Chinese calendar, it's the "Year of the Monkey." But it seems to be the "Year of Doing a Lot About Spam" at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which is suing commercial E-mailers, promulgating regulations, issuing reports, holding workshops, signing agreements with foreign governments to go...

How spam could have changed my life!
I was thinking this morning that there's nothing like spam E-mail to really put your priorities in order. Sure, we all know spam currently has an image among consumers rivaling only Yankee owner George Steinbrenner's image in Boston. Good marketers shun it, and the vast majority of the American...

FTC intensifies focus on CAN-SPAM.
As night follows day, so do investigations and enforcement actions by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) follow the promulgation of workshops and trade regulation rules. It should come as no surprise to marketers, therefore, that the FTC has turned its attention to compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act. ...

The long arm of the law takes its swings: state attorneys general, federal agencies say jail time and fines await marketing scammers.
"Jail time and fines await scammers." Those are the six words the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and attorneys general around the country have for marketers who choose to work outside the law. And they appear to be serious. From April 2004 through February 2005, the FTC filed...

Stolen identity.
Kevin Drum's article ("You Own You," December 2005) provides a number of commonsense approaches for combating identity theft. At the same time, it fails in one crucial regard. Specifically, it fails to even mention the fact that the GOP-controlled Congress changed the law governing Credit Reporting Bureaus (CRBs), when...

No telling.
The push for Internet privacy controls combines a bad theory with a dangerous agenda. Over the past week, I received about two dozen unsolicited mass e-mails, otherwise known as "spam." About half were devoted to sex, including six messages promoting a new Hustler Web site and one paradoxically promising...

FTC wants the public to help slam spam.
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Trade Commission released a report Sept. 16 assessing how a rewards system might entice the general public to track down spammers and help the government enforce its Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2002 (CAN-SPAM). The Act, effective since...