The rise of opt-in laws.
Opt-in laws are riding a strong wave on the regulatory waters. With increasing frequency, federal and state authorities are focusing their consumer protection missions on permission-based measures that could force marketers to rethink the way they share customer data, generate leads and contact prospects. Most recently, the...

FTC releases CAN-SPAM updates.
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) added updates to the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 that include making E-mail opt outs a one-step process, reports DMNews.com. The update, which took effect July 7, has enacted four new provisions: two revised definitions for sender and person; the allowance...

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...

McAfee, Inc. Selected by U.S. Department of Agriculture to Protect Against Spam, Spyware and Virus Attacks.
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- McAfee, Inc. , today announced that it has been selected to protect the U.S. Department of Agriculture's messaging system from spam, phishing, spyware and virus attacks. The USDA will use McAfee(R) Secure Messaging Gateway appliances to provide comprehensive and proactive protection for...

Growing Industry Cooperation Fuels 60% Expansion in Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group.
MAAWG Tackles Online Abuse to Protect Users, Issues Important Recommendations in 2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- With spam and other exploitation accounting for most of the email traffic over the Internet, the industry association created to fight abuse -- the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG)...

Regulating spam; a European perspective after the adoption of the e-privacy directive.
9789067042208 Regulating spam; a European perspective after the adoption of the e-privacy directive. Asscher, Lodewijk F. and Sjo Anne Hoogscarspel. T.M.C. Asser Press 2006 153 pages $70.00 Hardcover Information technology and law series;...

Committee Approves Anti-Spam Legislation; Amended Version Focuses on Fraudulent E-Mail.
WASHINGTON, May 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The House Judiciary Committee by voice vote today passed legislation targeting fraudulent commercial e-mail, frequently known as "spam." The Committee passed a substitute that narrows the scope of H.R. 718, which previously had passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee. ...

You've got junk mail.
Get in there and be spammed. That's how it is with internet users now. With a major part of the email bulk being spam mail. Being cyber savvy doesn't necessarily mean being cyber safe, a fact that the latest report by a research company has thrown up....

You've got spammed!
Byline: NATASHA CHOPRA 'The internet is just a convenient medium for people to make money as it is cost effective'. Strange indeed are the ways people adopt to make money. It's not uncommon for instance, to open your inbox only to read an email which,...

Brightmail's Anti-Spam Solution to Reduce Excite Users' Junk E-mail.
Brightmail's Anti-Spam Solution to Help Filter Millions of Excite Customer Mailboxes SAN FRANCISCO and REDWOOD CITY, Calif., May 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The Brightmail(TM) Anti-Spam Solution, part of a suite of message filtering solutions designed to prevent spam from contaminating Internet service providers' networks,...