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Technology Law Dispatch
FTC Brings Enforcement Action against Text Messaging Spammer
By Christine Nielsen Czuprynski
This post was written by Kevin Xu and John Hines. On February 22, 2011, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) filed a complaint against Phillip A. Flora (“Flora”) for an operation…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
FTC Asserts Authority to Enforce Against Senders of Unsolicited Text Messages
The Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection's Business Center Blog announced the FTC's recent complaint against a marketer who sent more than 5.5 million spam text messages at a…
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
Ninth Circuit Holds That Spam Victim Cannot Sue Registrar of Domain Site
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected a third party beneficiary claim brought by a spam victim against a registrar of a domain site sending numerous unwanted e-mails.
Inside Privacy
New Canadian Law Regulates Spam
After much mulling, the Canadian Parliament passed, on December 16, Bill C-28, the Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam Act, which creates a new regime for businesses engaged in online marketing. …
Canadian Technology & IP Law
What won’t be under the tree this year: spam
David Elder The Canadian government’s anti-spam bill, Bill C-28, moved quickly through Parliament this fall, receiving Royal Assent on December 15th, just before Parliament rose for its holiday season break. …
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Canada Adopts Stringent Anti-Spam Legislation
Adam Kardash from Heenan Blaikie LLP in Canada reports that the Fighting Internet and Wireless Spam bill received Royal Assent on December 16, 2010. The new Canadian law includes a…
International Law Prof Blog
Today’s Stupid Email Trick: Ban Ki-Moon Just Gave Me $650,500 Cash!
All email users get ridiculous spam messages from time to time. Hopefully our spam filters catch most of those messages. But from time to time, some messages get through. I…
Proskauer on Privacy
Supreme Court of California Decision Upholds Promotional E-mail Sender’s Method of Avoiding E-mail Filters
The Supreme Court of California held that Vonage did not violate California law by sending commercial e-mail advertisements to individuals from multiple domain names for the purpose of bypassing e-mail…
Tilting the Scales
Avoiding Getting Sued for Spam
By Jamie Ribman
Chris P. Letus doesn’t like burgers, shakes or Spam*. In 2008, Letus received an e-mail inviting him to King Burger to “taste the savory new bacon-loaded steak burger.” Letus immediately…
Drug & Device Law
Doing something about spam
By Bexis
As email users, spam is one of the banes of our existence. Fortunately our spam detectors now block most of it. As bloggers, spammed comments to our posts is another…