Schumer's efforts come as Congress is facing a deluge of anti-spam bills. Ray Everett-Church, a privacy consultant at ePrivacyGroup.com and a board member of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email, said Schumer's bill is probably the...
Earlier this month, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asked Congress for greater power to pursue and penalise those who send unsolicited bulk email. The 30,000 computers represent about 14 per cent of the total open relays from which MessageLabs...
The competing bills, each of which passed the Senate by 2-1 margins, would revise Bowen's anti-spam bill of 1998, which mandated that unsolicited commercial email be labelled as such in the subject line of the message.
For example, out of about a dozen bills introduced in Congress that promise to regulate commercial spam, not one attempts to restrict political email messages. The campaign said Dean, the former Democratic governor of Vermont, remained opposed to...
There are currently several anti-spam bills before the US parliament, but the chairman of the US Federal Trade Commission said the anti-spam bills being considered by Congress lack teeth and could be counterproductive.
has agreed to open up a number of its pending and granted patents for use with DomainKeys. In the long run, DomainKeys is more promising than existing anti-spam and anti-phishing technologies, which rely on techniques such as assembling a...