FTC sort of says that CAN SPAM sort of works
The CAN SPAM act required that the Federal Trade Commission report back after a year, which they did, releasing the report almost as an afterthought with a press release about some international anti-spam enforcement at...
News from Australia
Australia has an excellent anti-spam law, the Spam Act 2003.The Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts, Senator Helen Coonan has called for public submissions as part of a review of the Spam Act 2003, to be completed by April 2006. "The...
CAUCE Joins the London Action Plan and the Anti-Spyware Coalition
CAUCE Canada, CAUCE U.S., and Asia-Pacific CAUCE (APCAUCE) have joined the London Action Plan (LAP). The LAP is a project started by government consumer protection agencies like the US Federal Trade Commission, the UK Office of Fair Trading, and the our governmental...
Federal Task Force on Spam Final Report Submitted to Government
In May 2005, the Federal Task Force on Spam submitted a comprehensive report to Minister of Industry David Emerson. CAUCE Canada Board members participated on many of the working groups that developed the various sections of the report, and CAUCE Chair Neil...
New California Antispam Law
In late September, California enacted a new SB 97, a new version of the 2003 spam law that was overridden by CAN SPAM before it went into effect. Both spam bills and the phishing bills were introducted by Sen. Kevin Murray, one of a handful of state legislators with...
Oklahoma man wins $10 million judgement against a spammer
On Thursday the 22nd, Robert Braver, an Oklahoma ISP owner who is a long time activist against both spam and junk faxes received a default judgement of over $10 million against high profile spammer Robert Soloway and his company Newport Internet Marketing. Soloway has...
CAUCE offers advice on Katrina relief donations
Did you get e-mail asking you to contribute to Katrina relief? Unfortunately, many such requests are fraudulent. After every natural disaster in recent years, spammers have always sent fake appeals, preying on the good intentions of generous Americans. It happened...
CAN SPAM at least doesn’t prevent mail filtering
White Buffalo Ventures is a Texas company that sets up online dating sites. In early 2003, they had the clever idea to make a public information request to the University of Texas for all of their e-mail addresses, which the univerisity duly answered, and then to...
FTC issues report on spam tagging
In June 17, the Federal Trade Commission issued a press release and formal report related to the CAN SPAM act.The act required that they look at spam tagging with ADV: or a similar subject line tag. They conclude that tagging would not be effective, mostly because...
Industry Canada issues its spam task force report
Industry Canada, the part of the Canadian government roughly equivalent to the U.S. Commerce Department, has had a task force on spam working for the past year or so. It was convened at the request of David Emerson, Minister of Industry. In mid-May, it wrapped up its...
Is Spam Aimed At Canadians Actually Declining?
Dear CAUCE Canada Members,My colleague Pippa Lawson agreed that I pass the position statement (below) on to you. She is reacting (as am I) to an Ipsos-Reid Survey released this past Thursday, which, by way of telephone interviews with average Canadian Joes and Janes,...
CAUCE offers advice on Tsunami relief donations
Did you get spam asking you to contribute to Tsunami relief? Unfortunately, it was probably fraudulent.After every natural disaster in recent years, spammers have always sent fake appeals, preying on the good intentions of generous Americans. Rather than responding to...
