Invasion of privacy v. commercial speech: regulation of spam with a comparative constitutional point of view.
I. INTRODUCTION We live in a flood of unsolicited commercial e-mail, or "spam." (1) The development of the Internet, "an international network of interconnected computers," (2) brings us "electronic mail," (3) which is one of the most powerful and important communicative tools we have ever had in...

An architecture for spam regulation.
I. INTRODUCTION II. BACKGROUND A. The Spammers' Tools B. The Case for Spam Regulation III. LEGAL HISTORY A. Common Law Remedies B. Legislative Responses C. First Amendment Concerns D. Industry's Response IV. ARGUMENT A. Governing Principles B. A Different Approach 1. Technical Overview 2. Extending the Authentication-Based Framework 3....

Commercial Email - Getting It Right.
Reprinted with permission from FindLaw.com Once upon a time, the word "spam" conjured up notions of processed meat in a can. Of course, with the advent of the Internet, spam has taken on a completely different meaning - namely, unsolicited commercial email. Whereas improper email messages that...

The CAN-SPAM Act of 2003: is congressional regulation of unsolicited commercial e-mail constitutional?
I. INTRODUCTION With the advent of the internet, commercial advertisers have seized the opportunity to exploit the new e-mail medium, one of the easiest, least expensive, and least regulated means of reaching a captive audience. In 1999, 2.2 billion junk e-mail messages were sent worldwide daily, totaling...

Japanese New Anti-Spam Law.
Special thanks to two of our summer associates Isaac Raskin Young and Charles A.Karwowski-Hoppel, who worked dilgently on this alert. The spam problem in Japan has evolved rapidly over the past few years. As late as 2004, the vast majority of spam was sent to mobile phones...

FTC Chair Calls for Minimalist Spam Laws.
The chairman of the Federal Trade Commission told a conference audience yesterday that current anti-spam legislation being considered by the US legislature is in adequate and may cause more harm than good. Speaking at the Aspen Summit, a gathering of policymakers and technology executives hosted by technology...

Facing the regulatory music.
As 2008 comes to a close, it seems that, now more than ever, new regulatory and government affairs issues pop up on the horizon weekly--if not daily--for direct response marketers. Expanding marketing technology is just one reason for this, as growing expertise in Web marketing and the expansion of...

ClearPoint Metrics and Sophos Partner to Stamp Out Active and Potential IT Security Threats.
ClearPoint's Data Adapter for Sophos Will Provide Advanced Metrics to Fight Malware and Spam BURLINGTON, Mass., Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- ClearPoint Metrics, a leader in IT and information security performance management and metrics solutions, today announced the availability of a data adapter for a world leader in...

Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam.
Reprinted with permission from FindLaw.com Once upon a time, the thought of spam conjured up notions of processed meat in a can. And while such spam still exists and even is to the liking of some people, these days most people associate spam with unsolicited commercial email....

New Marshal8e6 Releases Comprehensive Content Filtering for Internal Email.
MailMarshal Exchange protects against malware and data leakage; enforces security policies on all email traffic ORANGE, Calif. and BASINGSTOKE, England Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The new secure email and Web gateway security provider, Marshal8e6, has launched its internal email filtering solution for Microsoft(R) Exchange(TM) 2003 and 2007....