The CAN-SPAM Act set out to reduce unsolicited e-mail by targeting the fraudulent use of third-party computer systems to relay e-mail messages, as well as messages that are unsigned or have fraudulent ...

As I write this, Congress is just about to finish up the approval of the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003, aka the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. The term “mixed ...

WITH THE ADVENT OF FEDERAL LAWS controlling spam e-mail, CPAs must exercise caution in their communications with clients and prospects. In so doing they can improve the look and effectiveness of their ...

I just read a new white paper from Montreal-based Vircom, developer of Modus secure messaging products, on recent international anti-spam legislation efforts. Entitled, “Can Laws Block Spam?” the ...

The bill, which would override all existing state anti-spam laws, puts numerous restrictions on the marketing e-mail messages companies can send to users, levies fines and jail terms for offenders, ...

WASHINGTON – Less than 1 percent of spam e-mail sent to U.S. inboxes this month complies with a national antispam law that went into effect Jan. 1, according to two spam filtering vendors. Commtouch ...

That Congress failed with the Can-Spam Act of 2003 is certainly not news, so why pay any attention to how the FTC is still struggling to fix it even now? Only because Congress is once again flirting ...

This week on Security Levity… spam laws around the world. Many of us know about the U.S. federal law regulating spam, known as the CAN-SPAM Act (or at least we think we do). But what about the laws ...

Ten years ago, more or less, Internet users were faced with a major problem with no obvious solution: spam. At the time, over half of all email traffic was thought to be spam, and that number was ...

A U.S. District Court has ordered a Washington state man who sued spammers under the CAN-SPAM Act and lost his case to pay the legal fees of the defendants. In its decision released last week, the U.S ...

Catalogers need to keep a pulse on spam’s fate in Washington, since their legitimate e-mails are often mistaken for spam. Anti-spam bills currently on the docket in Washington include: S. 877: ...