spam laws
RSS spam lawsGive us open access to Whois data, says US gov't
News The agency on Tuesday called access to the Whois databases, which contain contact information for website operators, "critical to the agency's consumer protection laws". The official statement comes after an address by... [28 Jun 2006]
UK held back by IT-illiterate MPs
News One infamous example was the DTI's ham-handed handling of an anti-spam consultation, which led to UK computer users and businesses being lumbered with flawed laws. UK business and innovation is being... [12 May 2006]
US still worst spam offender
News Just this week the Australian Communications and Media Authority made its first successful prosecution using the country's anti-spam laws when a Perth-based spammer was found guilty of illegally sending... [20 Apr 2006]
$2.4m spam ring shut down
News The defendants violated federal and state laws by sending millions of junk email messages advertising mortgage loans and other products and services, the FTC charged. In a deal with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and... [10 Apr 2006]
Australia makes crucial step in war on spam
News Simon Perry, VP security strategy at CA, told silicon.com he believes the laws are a positive move and added that although Australian citizens will now be better protected, global co-operation along similar lines could... [29 Mar 2006]
MIT hosts spam pow-wow
News Aaron Kornblum, an attorney from Microsoft's 65+ anti-spam litigation team, saw Can-Spam as a useful tool that has aided law enforcement in states with weak or nonexistent internet fraud... [29 Mar 2006]
India struggles with US spam invasion
News Wood said: "American companies use host services in other countries with laxer spam laws - perhaps a server farm in South America or an ISP in China. India's rapid adoption of new technology has left its... [02 Mar 2006]
Spamhaus hits out at paid-for email delivery plan
News users, though, as any companies using the service would have to show that under anti-spam laws they had the right to send the emails. A leading anti-spam agency has hit out at moves to... [07 Feb 2006]
US spammer gets a year in the can
News A Florida man known as the "timeshare spammer" was sentenced to a year in prison on Thursday for clogging inboxes with millions of unsolicited email messages, in one of the first criminal prosecutions under federal... [18 Nov 2005]
Greek police seize alleged 'spammer'
News This is not the first time the Greek authorities have hit the headlines over the enforcement of laws around technology. He said the only link between him and the spam appears to be that three people who... [07 Nov 2005]
Opinion: Policing the internet will take more than law
Comment Plans by the Home Office to consult on new laws to make possession of violent pornographic images a crime highlights the dilemma lawmakers face in this interactive and globalised world. As the recent developments in... [20 Sep 2005]
California Enacts Data Transfer and Security Restrictions
White Paper California has long been at the forefront of regulating Internet and privacy issues, and previously enacted identity theft and privacy laws at a time when most other states were content to defer to the federal government. [01 Sep 2005]
Texas singles spammer was wrong, court rules
News The case appears to be the first in which a court considered how the Can-Spam Act - which overrules most state laws dealing with junk email - regulates how a state university can install... [04 Aug 2005]
Spam King gives up spamming
News The way laws are going, spam will become illegal, in which case anything he'd invested would be wasted. Anti-spam experts believe Scott Richter, the man dubbed the Spam... [21 Jul 2005]
UK spam scandal update: Deeper and messier than feared
News Last month silicon.com published a series of articles detailing an apparently bungled consultation by the Department of Trade and Industry which lumbered the UK with flawed laws that effectively legitimised the sending... [06 Jul 2005]
