Letter to the Minister of Industry The Right Honourable Maxime Bernier
Dear Minister Bernier, As you are doubtless aware, representatives from industry, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), consumer groups and government and law enforcement gathered together from May 2004-2005 in a group known as the Federal Task Force on Spam. We are two...
Revenge spam is illegal in the UK
Reuters reports that a UK appeals court ruled that an English 18-year old who sent five million spams to a company who had fired him had indeed broken the law. The judge said that "while a computer user might consent to being sent some e-mails, that consent did...
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...
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 Joins the Anti-Spyware Coalition
CAUCE recently joined the Anti-Spyware Coalition.The ASC is a group of anti-spyware software companies, academics, and consumer groups such as CAUCE. It seeks to bring together a diverse array of perspective on the problem of controlling spyware and other potentially...
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...
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...
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...
Kodak gets wrist slapped for spamming
Kodak settled a CAN SPAM suit with the FTC. Their Ofoto unit, which lets people upload digital photos and buy prints, sent two million commercial messages that didn't comply with the very mild requirements of CAN SPAM. In particular, they didn't include a...
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...
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...
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...
